CDE session autologout

[JUAN VIDAL_1]

Hi,
how to automatically logout a CDE session when there is no activity? (HP-UX 11.11)

TIA&BR,

Juan.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Juan,

You would need to configure CDE to read variables like TMEOUT

http://docs.hp.com/en/5971-2271/5971-2271.pdf

http://safari.ibmpressbooks.com/0131018833/ch14lev1sec7

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[JUAN VIDAL_1]

Shalom Steve,
thanks for your response.
I've read the pdf doc but I'm sorry I cannot find where to enable variables like TIMEOUT.
Regarding the Safari link, I tryied to
TIMEOUT=1/export TIMEOUT but nothing...
Is that ok?

[Bill Hassell]

The variable is TMOUT, not TIMEOUT -- assuming you are using a standard POSIX shell such as ksh, sh (HP's POSIX shell) or something like bash. If you are using csh or similar, then the variable is autologout. TMOUT is in seconds while autologout is in minutes.

NOTE: This is a shell timeout. The user must be sitting at a shell prompr, not a menu or vi, or some other program. It will only close the shell window. It will not close the CDE desktop or any other Xwindow applications.

[JUAN VIDAL_1]

Ok, got it...so, ur telling me that there is no way (automatic) to close a whole CDE desktop/session?

[Chris Vail]

There's not really a way that I know of to time out a CDE session. However, it is very easy to configure the screen saver to lock the terminal after a period of non-use.

My approach would be to write a shell script to run as a daemon, to watch for inactive sessions and kill it. It would not be difficult to write.

[JUAN VIDAL_1]

Hi Chris,
thanks for your response.

How to detect an inactive session and
which process should I kill?

TIA&BR,
Juan.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

There is no easy way to determine what is running is and what is idle. The CDE desktop is just a pretty picture of what the user is doing. One user may have 25 windows open, each with a simple shell prompt and the user goes to lunch. T be a nice thing to do.he TMOUT value will logout the idle shell sessions. Another user is running 25 processes, half of which are computing and require hours to complete. Terminating this user's sessions would not