Re: idled and other timeout programs
On Sat, 01 Nov 1997 21:48:52 EST Paul Miller (paul@3dillusion.com)
wrote:
> I'm looking for a timeout program which will _NOT_ kill my xterm sessions
> but will kill my idle telnet sessions. I attempted to do this with idled
> by making it ignore users in a 'console' group which the login program
> added to the user's groups. The only problem is XDM doesn't add users to
> any groups.
>
> What is tricky is determining if the user is on locally or telneting
> because both xterm and telnet use /etc/ttyp* ...
>
> Has anyone done this before or have any ideas?
You can always look at which process has the matching pty open. It will be xterm for a xterm session or in.telnetd for a telnet session.
You can do that with fuser.
Phil.
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