topic Re: Time Out in Operating System - HP-UX

Time Out

P.V.Ramesh — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:44:28 GMT

How can i time out any session after certain amount of idle time

Re: Time Out

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:47:18 GMT

By setting and exporting the TMOUT environment variable to a non-zero number of seconds.

Re: Time Out

Dietmar Konermann — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:47:59 GMT

Hi!

For Posix or Korn Shell sessions you may use the TMOUT environment variable, e.g. to be set in /etc/profile. See man sh-posix(1).

Regards...
Dietmar.

Re: Time Out

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:04:45 GMT

Hi P.V.

You'll need to use & set the TMOUT env var for all or individual users
For all set in -> /etc/profile
For individual users -> set in the .profile or equivalent file.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Time Out

Deshpande Prashant — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:09:25 GMT

HI
For Ksh use following lines in /etc/profile.
##
TMOUT=600
readonly TMOUT
##
This will timeout shells at prompt after 10 minutes of idle time.

Thanks.
Prashant.

Re: Time Out

Bill Hassell — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:35:01 GMT

And for csh users, the variable is: autologout and is measured in minutes. NOTE: for all shell timeouts, these work only if the user returns back to the shell. The timer starts when the shell prompt is displayed. If a user decides to run vi and then leave for vacation, the shell is waiting on vi and can't run the timer.

Re: Time Out

Wodisch_1 — Tue, 13 Aug 2002 20:05:04 GMT

Hi,

since $TMOUT and such won't work if the user has a "sleep 999" running, how about "idled" (idle daemon)?

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch
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