topic Re: session autotermination in Operating System - Linux

session autotermination

Andrej Vavro — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 07:13:22 GMT

Hi,

where I can setup my SuSE distribution to kill a user session after e.g. 1 hour inactivity?

Thanks
Andrej

Re: session autotermination

Balaji N — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 08:36:31 GMT

hi

try using the shell's timeout feature.

if there is no activity for a certain period of time the shell can be made to timeout.

see your shell man page for more info.

-balaji

Re: session autotermination

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:46:56 GMT

Most shell's have a feature to set TMEOUT variable.

In /etc/profile

or

/home/username/.bash_profile

add the following code

TMEOUT=3600
export TMEOUT

This will time out shell sessions that are inactive for an hour. If however the user has anything going on even a vi /filename session, the TMEOUT won't work.

It will effectively clean anything up thats on a dollar prompt.

SEP

Re: session autotermination

Caesar_3 — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:54:14 GMT

Hello!

You can use the TMEOUT variable
or you can write a script that will check
the time of proccesses and stop the wanted
this way you could make a rulles for the
proccess, stop some one or leave to run.

Caesar