inactivity timeout

[Satish Y]

Hi,

How to set inactivity timeout for a terminal. for example if a user prompted for login and passwd and if he won't enter with in 15 minutes , it should give alarm call and close connection.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Satish.

[KapilRaj]

hi Satish( Do i know you),

You can accomplish this by adding a -t"TIME IN SECONDS" in the last of telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf. For example,

telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd -t 120

after this restart inetd daemon by inetd -c

This excersize disconnects a user who is inactive for 2 minutes that is 120 seconds.

Hope this helps you,

kaps

[Satish Y]

Kapil, it's not working....
Satish.

[KapilRaj]

Hi satish,

Can you go through the man pages of inetd.conf , there is an example for disconnecting an inactive ftp session. It should work. Is it not ?.

Even telnet is also started by inetd

best of luck

kaps

[Satish Y]

No, its not working....
Cheers...
Satish.

[John Waller]

Satish,

Are these terminals connected to a serial MUX card on the HP server or are they remote. Normally when you "telnet" into the server I find the connetion gets closed automatically if you do not enter a user ID and password within about 2 minutes. If these are serial devices , then modify the /etc/inittab and add a -t 60 (60 seconds) option to each line which is running the getty for the devices. This will close the connection but perhaps someone else can expand as to how to send an alarm.