topic Re: auto logout user & kill expire process in Operating System - HP-UX

auto logout user & kill expire process

Kelvin Ng — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:17:03 GMT

1) How to terminate user session & force quit from application if IDLE for a specific time example 15 minutes, each user use their own . profile

2) How to automate kill inactive & expire process/session, sometimes user just close the application without proper logout OR with proper logout, but certain process still runnnig with ? when i run ps -ef,
at this moment i just know how to use kill -9 to kill the inactive process

like both users in the attachment file, they already logout from application

Re: auto logout user & kill expire process

VEL_1 — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:20:35 GMT

1. You can force a terminal to log out after a period of inactivity by setting the TMOUT and TIMEOUT parameters in the /etc/profile file. The TMOUT parameter works in the ksh (Korn) shell, and the TIMEOUT parameter works in the bsh (Bourne) shell.

The following example, taken from a .profile file, forces the terminal to log out after an hour of inactivity:

TO=3600
echo "Setting Autologout to $TO"
TIMEOUT=$TO
TMOUT=$TO
export TIMEOUT TMOUT

2. Mostly, the user's application will be exited when user session closed except if we used command like "nohub" .

Re: auto logout user & kill expire process

Indira Aramandla — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:49:02 GMT

Hi Kelvin,

To drop idle sessioon try using the shell variables such a TMOUT.

The idle telnet session can be automatically cleared by setting the timeout value. A non-zero value specifies the number of minutes to wait before an idle telnet session is timed out. The minimum value is 1 minute, the maximum is 512640 minutes (1 year).

You can sett the TIMEOUT value to 15 minutes in the users profiles who use that application.

Indira A

Re: auto logout user & kill expire process

Ranjith_5 — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:14:34 GMT

Hi Kelvin,

At my place it is set in /etc/profile for 5 mins.I have added the following

export TMOUT=300

If you need to set timeout only for specific users then add the same entry in .profile for those users.

Regards,
Syam

Re: auto logout user & kill expire process

Kelvin Ng — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 02:20:42 GMT

i create a new user, login & get the $ without any profile setting, is sh shell, put TMOUT into .profile, it work

i logon with my userID with own profile that bring me to application menu, at the $, is ksh, put TMOUT into .profile, it doesn't work

Re: auto logout user & kill expire process

Kelvin Ng — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:52:27 GMT

To whom it may concern,

i put the TMOUT=15 in my home directory .profile, it auto logout & close the session when only i exit from application menu & get the $, refer to attach doc file.

it won't auto logout when i still inside my application menu.

(my requirement is we would like to logout ceratin IDLE users from their application menu)

As for killing inactive/expire process, someone tell my to write a script & put in cron job, does any one have the scripts ?, will it kill of those process started by root or other important users ?

Re: auto logout user & kill expire process

Gordon Morrison — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 06:51:47 GMT

Hi Kelvin,
TMOUT won't kill any sessions that have a sub-process (child) running for a good reason: If you're running a program/script that takes a long time, ending it prematurely could cause data corruption.

I've attached a script that I use. Among other things, it checks for old logins and kills them if they have no children, and if they are not on a list of users NOT to kill.
It's designed to be run remotely via ssh, but it also works locally.

Re: auto logout user & kill expire process

Gordon Morrison — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 06:53:32 GMT

Here's another script that will clean up 'phantom' logins from utmp. These occur when a user doesn't logout cleanly, and the shell exits, but utmp doesn't get updated.