Re: Unix admin user time out

Steff Gonos wrote:

> Does anyone have any scripts that could do this ?
> I realize that I have other options, like ask her
> not to do this, or leave my session up and prevent her
> from jumping on, but there are a few others who need
> to use it also.

I guess you could write a cron job to parse the output of the 'w' command, which has a column for idle time, and if it exceeds a threshold, try kill -KILL `ps -ef|awk '($1 == $USERNAME) { print $2 }'`

g

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