root@uokmet.UUCP (01/12/88)
>All these cute little scripts/programs to kill off idle users are cute >but they are also futile. It doesn't take much imagination to come up >with a program to put a clock on the screen or just write any meaningless >little message out to the screen every few minutes in order to beat it. They are NOT futile. People had a tendency to forget to log off our Tektronix 4105 terminals. Why, you ask? Well, after a certain amount of inactivity, the screens go blank. That makes it easy for a user to forget he/she was logged in. == kwthomas ==