idleout is fine for its intended purpose. what i really need is a means of finding and killing processes running on my unix box but which are connected to Pc's. Users login to the unix box using tinyterm or tun or whatever and then leave a menu running and just shutdown their pc. After several month loads of these processes are left. Re-booting regularly clears but i need/want an alternative.
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finger -i should pull the full list of users and processes, but more importantly will show you just how long each has been idle.
From this point its not too hard to write a quick script to kill off the very old ones. ***************************************
Party on, dudes!
From this point its not too hard to write a quick script to kill off the very old ones. ***************************************
Party on, dudes!
I'm not sure if you are really talking about processes here.
You may be seeing hung network connections:
I see in netstat that processes get stuck in TIME_WAIT for a long time. How can I change this behaviour?
For some reason, OpenServer sets that to 30 minutes even while stating that the recommended setting is 4 minutes!
You can edit /etc/default/inet and change tcp_2msl to lower the time. Stop and restart tcp/
Or perhaps you are seeing phantom users:
People log out but still show up in who
This information is logged in /etc/utmp and /etc/utmpx. In 5.0.4, this information is cleared when the system reboots. For earlier releases, edit /etc/bcheckrc as follows. You will see the first of the following three lines already there; add the other two below it.
/bin/su bin -c "/etc/devnm / 2>/dev/null" | /etc/setmnt
[ -w /etc/utmp ] && > /etc/utmp
[ -w /etc/utmpx ] && > /etc/utmpx
Also, "cwtmp" ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/scobins/cwtmp is a freely available utility that clears stale logins.
And finally see faq58-1351 here also Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
You may be seeing hung network connections:
I see in netstat that processes get stuck in TIME_WAIT for a long time. How can I change this behaviour?
For some reason, OpenServer sets that to 30 minutes even while stating that the recommended setting is 4 minutes!
You can edit /etc/default/inet and change tcp_2msl to lower the time. Stop and restart tcp/
Or perhaps you are seeing phantom users:
People log out but still show up in who
This information is logged in /etc/utmp and /etc/utmpx. In 5.0.4, this information is cleared when the system reboots. For earlier releases, edit /etc/bcheckrc as follows. You will see the first of the following three lines already there; add the other two below it.
/bin/su bin -c "/etc/devnm / 2>/dev/null" | /etc/setmnt
[ -w /etc/utmp ] && > /etc/utmp
[ -w /etc/utmpx ] && > /etc/utmpx
Also, "cwtmp" ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/scobins/cwtmp is a freely available utility that clears stale logins.
And finally see faq58-1351 here also Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
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