Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!ogicse!unmvax!uokmax!d.cs.okstate.edu!klarich From: klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu (KLARICH TERRY JAME) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: idle kill program needed Message-ID: <1990Oct29.180340.3166@d.cs.okstate.edu> Date: 29 Oct 90 18:03:40 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Lines: 20 I know there was just a big discussion about killing off idle users. However, I did not pay any attention because I never thaught I would need to worry about this. Well, my boss asked me to get something running which would get rid of idle users after a certain time. I ftped a program like this from simtel; but, it could not handle people coming in from telnet. Also, this program would just pay attention to the last time a character was read and then start counting. So, if the program the user was running did not require a keyboard read within kill_time minutes, they were logged off even though they were not idle. If some one could recommend a good idle kill program or send me a summary of this discussion, I would sure appreciate the trouble. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Klarich n5hts