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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.sources
Subject: Re: Automatic Logout Process
Message-ID: <264@sesame.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 18:59:57 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 18:59:57 1985
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> Does anyone out there in Netland have source to a program that will
> log users out automatically if their terminals have been idle for a
> specified amount of time and they have no processes running???? Sys V
> or 4.2bsd will do....
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Dave Bloom
> Rutgers University, Newark, NJ.

I would suspect that a mod to the tty driver would be appro.  (Fake out
DTR/CD going inactive on timeout.)  Due to the needed location, this
is highly system dependent.


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