Autologout of unused terminals

[Jonathan Bayer]

In article <9012 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <2682 at sultra.UUCP> dtynan at sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
> 
> Because any automated scheme you come up is likely to ALSO kill off
> some perfectly legitimate jobs.
> 
> I have, nearly every day, important connections between a "terminal"
> and a host computer that appear to have no activity on them for a
> long time, sometimes hours.  However, the connections are needed and
> cannot be opened only at the time they are active; they must be
> arranged in advance then just sit there.  An automatic "kill idle
> terminal" daemon would wreak havoc with this.


Not if you can specify configuration information to the idle-killer via
a config. file.   We have such a product which will ignore specific
users (let them stay on forever), ttys , etc.  It is actually fairly
easy to write.

Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.