klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu (KLARICH TERRY JAME) (10/30/90)
I know there was just a big discussion about killing off idle users. However, I did not pay any attention because I never thaught I would need to worry about this. Well, my boss asked me to get something running which would get rid of idle users after a certain time. I ftped a program like this from simtel; but, it could not handle people coming in from telnet. Also, this program would just pay attention to the last time a character was read and then start counting. So, if the program the user was running did not require a keyboard read within kill_time minutes, they were logged off even though they were not idle. If some one could recommend a good idle kill program or send me a summary of this discussion, I would sure appreciate the trouble. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Klarich <klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu> n5hts
klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu (KLARICH TERRY JAME) (11/01/90)
Somebody sent me an article which told me where I might get an idle_users program. They sead that I could ftp it from the machine where they were sending from. I accidently deleted the message before I had a chance to look at it. So, Could the person who sent this please send it again. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Klarich <klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu> n5hts
sequoia@ucscb.ucsc.edu (Gary M. Lin) (11/02/90)
In article <1990Oct29.180340.3166@d.cs.okstate.edu> klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu (KLARICH TERRY JAME) writes: > >I know there was just a big discussion about killing off idle users. >However, I did not pay any attention because I never thaught I would need >to worry about this. Well, my boss asked me to get something running which >would get rid of idle users after a certain time. I ftped a program like >this from simtel; but, it could not handle people coming in from telnet. >Also, this program would just pay attention to the last time a character >was read and then start counting. So, if the program the user was running >did not require a keyboard read within kill_time minutes, they were logged off >even though they were not idle. The CATS programmers on campus once installed an idle-user killer on our open-access system, to free up ports on a heavily loaded IS68K running 4.2BSD. It would sit in background waiting for your tty to be silent for say, 15 minutes, before logging you out. Needless to say, students didn't appreciate this 'feature', as logging back in entails waiting on a 10 minute queue. So people ran 'yes' and left their terminals for hours on end logged in. So far, the programmers haven't caught on :) -------- Gary M. Lin Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz INTERNET: sequoia@ucscb.ucsc.edu, quantum@slugmail.ucsc.edu UUCP: ..ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!sequoia