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by **Josh Gasbe** » Sat, 17 Apr 1999 04:00:00

I have instances when a user will dial in from home into a modem connected
to my RS6000 G40 and I would like to "knock" them off the system after X
inactive time.

Any suggestions.

Thanks,
Josh Gasber
RECO Equipment, Inc.

by **Mike Wigingto** » Sat, 17 Apr 1999 04:00:00

Use the set command to see what the environment variable TMOUT is set to.
TMOUT works for the ksh and TIMEOUT works for bsh.

You can set TMOUT in the .profile

TMOUT=number of seconds

export TMOUT

Good Luck,
Mike Wig

by **Randy Styk** » Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:00:00

> I have instances when a user will dial in from home into a modem connected
> to my RS6000 G40 and I would like to "knock" them off the system after X
> inactive time.

> Any suggestions.

The TMOUT shell variable can be used; it will only work for
people at a shell prompt, however. Our company wanted something
that would work regardless of the application. Also, we wanted
to check cpu usage for a user to decide if they were idle, rather
than just look for keyboard activity. Thus we don't want to log
them off if they are running a long program with no keyboard
activity. So we wrote (and sell ;-) a product called LOGMON.
Other solutions could not meet this cpu monitoring requirement.

Logmon lets you vary the inactivity time by user, time of day,
etc. You can control how the user is logged off. For details,

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by **Bob Rubenduns** » Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:00:00

> > I have instances when a user will dial in from home into a modem connected
> > to my RS6000 G40 and I would like to "knock" them off the system after X
> > inactive time.

> > Any suggestions.

> The TMOUT shell variable can be used; it will only work for
> people at a shell prompt, however.

You can also set most modems to hang up after a period of no data
activity across the modem link, say twenty minutes. The modem will drop
DCD, and this will log the user off. It's crude, but effective!
--
-Bob Rubendunst
Soft Machines
Autolog Communications software for AIX, AMOS, DOS, Windows, and SCO
Unix
Phone: (217) 351-7199 Fax: (217) 351-2629
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I would like to automatically logout a user dialing in on a modem

I would like to automatically logout a user dialing in on a modem

I would like to automatically logout a user dialing in on a modem

I would like to automatically logout a user dialing in on a modem

I would like to automatically logout a user dialing in on a modem