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From: rich@VAXKILLER.AGI.ORG (Richard E. Showalter)
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Subject: Idel terminal Killer.
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Date: 24 May 91 16:58:48 GMT
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Hello folks,

	Maybe this is not the best place for this but does anyone  
know of or have a program that watches for idle terminals and logs  
them out if they are inactive for a specified amount of time.  I have  
eight terminals running off my NeXT and most of my users came from  
our old Vax system that had an Idle Process terminator called  
WATCHER.  Everyone is so use to letting the program log them out that  
people are leaving their terminals on for hours until I find them and  
have to manually kill the process. Set autologout= "some time value"   
does not work if the users left the terminal while in a program  
application.  I can't seem to impress upon my users to remember to  
logout.   If any of you UNIX gurus have an answer I would appreciate  
you e-mailing me.  Thanks.


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					    |  Rich Showalter
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, it was the DNA,        |  SysAdmin
hey, hey, hey, hey, that made me this way." |  Agouron Institute
(Queen) 				    |  rich@vaxkiller.agi.org
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