Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!sns!holgi
From: holgi@sns.UUCP (Holger Kollmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals
Message-ID: <83@cosmic.sns.UUCP>
Date: 24 Nov 88 17:56:17 GMT
References: <201.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp>
Reply-To: holgi@sns.UUCP (Holger Kollmer)
Organization: Stuttgarter Net System, FRG
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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?  We are looking

You can make stat(2) on the tty. That system call returns st_mtime and 
st_atime which shows the last access and modification time. 


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