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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,alt.sources,comp.sources.wanted,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: wanted, info, sources, code
Keywords: bbs aplications why re-invent the wheel?
Message-ID: <13227@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 Feb 89 15:54:02 GMT
References: <396@contact.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Sure, no problem. All you need is a little daemon running which checks
your idle time (with whatever qualification you want to use) and and
sends a hangup signal to the shell. It can be started by the profile,
and gets the parent id from getppid() so it know who to watch. I had one
for a while, but I switched to Korn shell and that has timeout built in.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me