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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Need help implementing automatic signoff under 4.2 BSD UNIX.
Message-ID: <2471@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 8-Apr-86 15:10:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  8 15:10:26 1986
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In article <137@uwslh.UUCP> dem@uwslh.UUCP (David E. Miran) writes:
>I am planning to implement an automatic signoff feature so that
>idle terminals will be signed out after 30 minutes with no activity.

Prepare to be crucified by Blit and DMD users, who often need a
terminal port kept open for a long time with no intervening activity.

Many shells have a default time-out feature (that can be explicitly
disabled by users who need to); consider using this instead.