Autologout of unused terminals

[Amos Shapir]

In article <9012 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>There are many ways to deal with careless terminal users other than
>automatic idle-terminal killer software.

Here's one: the following command file, for BSD systems, uses the output
of 'w' to mail notes to idle users. The only bug is that such users are
usually not there to read their mail...

#!/bin/sh
w -hs | \
sed -n 's/^\(.........\)\(..\)\(.[0-9]\).*/(echo You have a login session on tty\2\
echo which has been inactive for more than \3 days now. \
echo You can use ps -ut\2  to find out what processes run there and kill them.) \\\
|Mail -s "Idle login session" \1/p' |sh


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