hi some one asked me to summarize : many told me to put an : export TMOUT=xx (xx in seconds) in /etc/profile : usefull above all when users use xterm many others recommend the "autologout" environment variable (csh) that do the same thing, but users may avoid it by putting something like : unset autologout in their own profile file some one sent me a link : http://access1.sun.com/codesamples/kstat.html there's a source code to get mouse and keyboard idle time : doesn't suite me because my users connect using telnet/ssh Beavers, Reginald sent me this shell code that i haven't try yet : as he said : logicaly it should do the job: ################################################### #!/bin/sh # egrep those who are immune who -u | egrep -v 'root|me' |while read line; do pid=`echo $line | awk '{print $7}'` idle=`echo $line | awk '{print $6}' | awk -F: '{print $2}'` if [ $idle >= 10 ]; kill -9 $pid fi done #####################################################" and finaly, the C source code that John Adams sent me; i attached it to to me email. that's it. thank you all for your help Cordialement/ Best Regards BENDRISS Elmehdi Administrateur Systhme Tel : +212 37 71 88 73 [demime 0.99c.7 removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of autologout.c] _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Apr 11 12:56:26 2003
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