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do you have idleout available on your version? Ed Fair
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Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
unixstuff@juno.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
How can inactive users be automatically logged out?
The "idleout" program has been included with SCO Unix versions since Xenix. It is a shell script, so you can easily modify it if it doesn't quite answer your needs.
There are some limitations to it, however, so you may want to use something else.
A better program is nidleout by John Dubois. That's a ksh script- it's complicated, though, and probably hard to modify unless you understand ksh scripts very well. However, it may do exactly what you want without modification. ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/nidleout
It's possible that just setting the TMOUT variable in ksh or bash may be enough for your needs; see the man pages for your shell.
Linux has "autolog", and a compiled OSR5 version (complete with man pages) is available from
There are also commercial solutions. Computronics Logmon is product that doesn't have the limitations of idleout and offers extensive configuration
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Finally, I have a Perl script that has its own way of approaching the problem:
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
The "idleout" program has been included with SCO Unix versions since Xenix. It is a shell script, so you can easily modify it if it doesn't quite answer your needs.
There are some limitations to it, however, so you may want to use something else.
A better program is nidleout by John Dubois. That's a ksh script- it's complicated, though, and probably hard to modify unless you understand ksh scripts very well. However, it may do exactly what you want without modification. ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/nidleout
It's possible that just setting the TMOUT variable in ksh or bash may be enough for your needs; see the man pages for your shell.
Linux has "autolog", and a compiled OSR5 version (complete with man pages) is available from
There are also commercial solutions. Computronics Logmon is product that doesn't have the limitations of idleout and offers extensive configuration
.
Finally, I have a Perl script that has its own way of approaching the problem:
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
And btw, the post I made above is in the FAQ for this forum but of course nobody ever looks there 
Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
Tony LawrenceSCO Unix/Linux Resources tony@pcunix.com
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