Re: Idle session logout

From: Kalevi Nyman (kan_at_canit.se)
Date: 10/24/04

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    Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:24:47 +0200
To: "Sanjeev B.S." <sanjeev@mbu.iisc.ernet.in>

    Sanjeev B.S. wrote:

    >>try to set TMOUT=<seconds> in /etc/profile.
    >
    >
    > TMOUT works only for bash shell users, isn't it? May be running a simple
    > shell script with kill -9 that checks with 'finger foo', grepping idle
    > time, might be a good idea. First get the pts, say 'pts/2', then check it
    > with ps -ef | grep 'pts/2'. Then decide whether to for logout.
    >
    >
    timeoutd could work also I guess.

    http://www-linux.gsi.de/linux-doc/timeoutd/

    http://www-linux.gsi.de/linux-doc/timeoutd/README

    An other alternative is to use porttime.

    http://www.zevils.com/cgi-bin/man/man2html?porttime+5 

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Kalevi Nyman
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