Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Timeout in SVR3
Message-ID: <10697@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 3 May 88 19:51:42 GMT
References: <2586@mibte.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: timeout SVR3

In article <2586@mibte.UUCP> twh@mibte.UUCP (Tim Hitchcock) writes:
| Is there a facility for "timing out" a user process when there is no activity ?
| 
| Is there a SHELL Variable that can be set to cause logging off of a user
| if they are not using their terminal ?

There is such a feature in Korn shell, called TMOUT. At one point in the
evolution of ksh (at least the versions I use) this went from minutes to
seconds. Big fun.

There are a number of idle daemons which will go around and do it for
you, using various levels of smarts. I never felt the need, but I've
seen them go by on the net.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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