away(1)

💖 away — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the away manual page, from the User Manuals section, section 1 🫶. It's giving "please go away, I'm busy" but make it ✨intentional✨.

✨ NAME ✨

away — the terminal locking program 🌸. yeah. that's it. that's the whole vibe.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

away [OPTIONS] message [...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so listen. away is a simple program that locks your terminal 🔒, checks for new mail in any given number of mailboxes 📬, and lets other users know why you're inactive 💅. main character energy fr fr — it's literally just you announcing "not me being unavailable rn" to everyone.

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -c, --mail — turn ON the mail checking. we love a mailbox moment 📬✨
• -C, --nomail — turn OFF the mail checking. not today, inbox 🙈
• -f, --rcfile=FILE — point it at a different config file instead of the default ~/.awayrc one. like, your own custom era 🎀
• -F, --norcfile — straight up ignore the user config file. no notes, no rules, no ~/.awayrc 💀
• -h, --help — shows you the help. slay, very demure, very mindful 🫶
• -m, --message — run everything as the rest of the command line, which basically strips off the executable name and any extra switches. it's giving "just take the rest, bestie" ✨
• -p, --persist — keep checking for new mail for as long as there's at least one mailbox that has NOT gotten new mail yet. the grind does not stop 👑
• -P, --nopersist — stop checking mail the second any mailbox is found to have new mail. immediate. no cap 🛑
• -t, --time=SECONDS — sets how many seconds away sleeps before it does its background tasks 😴. and rn, the only background task away will do is checking mailboxes, so that's the whole to-do list fr.
• -T, --notime — ignore any options that try to set the time interval and just use the default number of seconds. default behavior, but make it a choice 💅
• -v, --version — displays version info. iconic of it ⭐

🍓 FILES 🍓

• ~/.awayrc — the per user configuration file. check out awayrc(5) for all the deets, iykyk 📖
• /etc/pam.d/away — the Linux-PAM configuration file 🔐

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? first of all, not the vibe 😭. send your bug reports to the away mailing list at <away@unbeatenpath.net>. they wanna hear it fr fr.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

awayrc(5) 🌸

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>, and others 🫶. shoutout to the "and others" — we see you, unnamed icons.

okay that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💖. this one's from the Linux source, dated November 2000 — yes, it's been serving terminal-locking realness since literally forever ⭐🎀. periodt. 💅