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From: rjd@attibr.UUCP (Robert J. Diamond x7650)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need a timeout device SVR3.x
Summary: port shortage
Keywords: timeout
Message-ID: <173@attibr.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 12:46:06 GMT
References: <170@attibr.UUCP> <10226@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: AT&T International, Basking Ridge, NJ
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In article <10226@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (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.  Why is it so important that users press
| a key every so often?  Surely there must be applications where that
| would be a silly requirement.
| 
| What is your real requirement?  A "need to time out users" is not
| an end in itself.

There IS a need for us to time out users.  When you have machines with
16 ports each, and times when 20 users want to get on, and half of the
users that ARE logged in are at lunch or a meeting or just ignoring
their terminals, it would be nice to get them off.
-- 
Robert Jon Diamond                         | attibr!rjd
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