Telnet Timeout

[Bruce eley_1]

Just wondering if it is possible to define a telnet timeout for inactivity? I have users that have remote telnet sessions that either forget to logout or they have certain screens open that cause our WMS program to hang. It would be nice if this could be set to automatically log the session out after a certain period of inactivity. Any ideas?

[Ivan Ferreira]

There is an environment variable called TMOUT that will logoff a user after reach the inactivity time specified in the variable, but this is only if the user has a shell open.

If not, then you should wirte a script that takes the output of the "w" command to identify the "idle" time.

Based in that output, you get the tty, then you can kill the process listed by ps -t .

[Bruce eley_1]

Are there any good resources out there to help with writing the script? Sorry, kinda new to Tru64

[Ivan Ferreira]

This link can give you some tips:

http://open.itworld.com/5040/nls_unix_idlelogons060629/page_1.html

[Bruce eley_1]

Thanks for the link!!