Checking your booking history
Should you want to check your booking history, you can either:- type book then past
- type /usr/local/etc/bkuser -p $USER
bkuser returns more detailed information than book does and hence is useful if a booking is disputed.
Other useful options to bkuser are:
- /usr/local/etc/bkuser -t $USER - your token allocation
- /usr/local/etc/bkuser -b $USER - pending (future) bookings
Booking States
If you run /usr/local/etc/bkuser $USER you will see that your booking tokens are in one of several states (some of these states are the same as when you run lab):- PENDING - the booking is for a future timeslot
- TENTATIVE - the booking is for the current timeslot and a workstation has been allocated
- ALLOCATED - the booking is for the current timeslot and the allocated workstation has been claimed
- RETURNED - the booked timeslot is past
- REFUNDED - the booked timeslot is past and could not be honored
- FREEBIE - the booking may not have been necessary because the lab was FREE at the time of the booked slot
- CANCELLED - the booking was cancelled before its time
RETURNED, REFUNDED and FREEBIE are all just different ways of returning your booking tokens to you after the booked timeslot is past.