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Subject: Idle Process Deletion
Message-ID: <183@jplcwp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 13:51:21 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 13:51:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 10:07:26 EST
Organization: Jet Propulsion Labs, Pasadena, CA
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Keywords: Idle Process, Unmanned Process
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I am looking for a utility that works under
Ultrix 1.2 for recognizing and deleting idle
processes or unmanned processes.

The scenario is as follows:

	A user is logged and he/she began using
	"vi" or "emacs" or "more" and for some
	reason she/he walked away from the terminal.
	As far as the system is concerned the user
	is running a process,  yet the terminal
	is unnatended and is a potential for a
	security breach.

Another situation:

	A background process has been started by
	someone, who is no longer logged-in and
	this process is an unnecessary one therefore
	it should be deleted.
 
If you have or have seen a solution please reply directly
because I do not have time to read all the messages
in the e-mail.

Thanks in advance.

Michael Deutsch		{....!cit-vax!smeagol!jplgodo!jplcwp!deutsch}