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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals
Message-ID: <8978@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Nov 88 08:25:57 GMT
References: <201.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <201.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> bengsig@orcenl.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>Is there any way to see if a terminal has not been used for some time,
>and if it hasn't, to send a hangup to the processes there?

Try that around here and you may get stomped on!

Just why this is a BAD idea has been spelled out many times before
and need not be repeated.