Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!necntc!linus!philabs!trotter!bill
From: bill@trotter.usma.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Want login shell to timeout after 15 mins.
Keywords: Sys-V, idle, logout
Message-ID: <1152@trotter.usma.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 88 20:59:32 GMT
References: <3341@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <176@conexch.UUCP> <3723@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: US Military Academy, West Point, NY
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All these cute little scripts/programs to kill off idle users are cute
but they are also futile.  It doesn't take much imagination to come up
with a program to put a clock on the screen or just write any meaningless
little message out to the screen every few minutes in order to beat it.

Unless there is a shortage of ttys or better system than the ones I've
seen so far I wouldn't bother as the overhead of all these little time
wasters may be worse than the idle terminals.

Can't you just see a digital clock program redrawing the whole screen
every second.   :-)

bill gunshannon


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