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From: ccs013@castor.ucdavis.edu (Jason)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need a timeout device SVR3.x
Keywords: timeout
Message-ID: <4241@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 8 May 89 01:34:27 GMT
References: <170@attibr.UUCP> <10226@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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Reply-To: ccs013@castor.ucdavis.edu (Jason)
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In article <10226@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <170@attibr.UUCP> rjd@attibr.UUCP (Robert J. Diamond x7650) writes:
>>We have a problem.  We need to time out inactive users on our 3b2's,
>>...  Any ideas/solutions?
>
>I suggest you reconsider. Surely there must be applications where that
>would be a silly requirement.

Exactly ... perhaps a combination of idle and cpu usage to check for an

anppropriate "time-out" might be needed.

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