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From: bob@trojan (Bob Firestine)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Resident AST's
Message-ID: <155@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 88 14:21:48 GMT
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In article <3334@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael Zehr) writes:
>
>[question about how to have an AST perform I/O every 10 minutes to
>prevent a user from being logged out]
>
Once upon a time I dealt with a fascist system manager, and found it necessary
to circumvent his "autologout" program.  I used a subprocess that periodically
used f$getjpi to get information about the parent process.  This caused an
AST to be queued to the parent process, causing it to use CPU time.  Therefore
the parent process did not appear to be idle.  I do not recall what info I
requested about the process, and I'm not sure if it mattered.  It may have been
its CPU utilization.  I doubt that I still have the command procedure I used.

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