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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 1997 00:02:12 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Killing idle telnet sessions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970204000022.13156X-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970202191324.572A-100000@revelstone.jvm.com>

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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Cliff Addy wrote:

> Is there a way to kill sessions that have been idle for, say, 30 
> minutes?  I don't just mean lost connections, I also mean bozos who've 
> gone to lunch or gone home.

tcsh and perhaps even csh has a built-in 'auto-logout' feature that is set
in the .cshrc.  You could stick this into your skeletons or systemwide
.cshrc's. 

Don't know about other shells, and it doesn't help if they leave
themselves in Pine or whatever.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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