Re: idle users

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From: Mr. X
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1991 20:50

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In article <306@unicom.UUCP> carlos@unicom.UUCP (Carlos Robinson) writes:
>
>Hello Gurus,
>
>I have a problem here at the college with intro students leaving their
>terminals without logging out.  Is there a program or script to help
>solve this this problem.  We operated on a Vax 11/750 with BSD 4.3 version
>of unix.  I would like to logout users who has not used their terminals
>let's say within the last 20 minutes.  Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-carlos 

	How about setting the envorinment variable TMOUT to 1200 and making it
	read-only?  Works for us.

	-Andy

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