Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site wdl1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!kimery From: kimery@wdl1.UUCP (Sam Kimery) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: Re: Automatic Logout Process Message-ID: <635@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 12:32:56 EDT Article-I.D.: wdl1.635 Posted: Mon Aug 19 12:32:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 17:39:54 EDT References: <6@andromeda.UUCP> <264@sesame.UUCP> <958@rayssd.UUCP> <165@laidbak.UUCP> Organization: Ford Aerospace, Western Development Laboratories Lines: 22 > Agreed, this is of questionable value, but suppose > you modified the shells or kernel and discovered > that the mod didn't *quite* work. It would be no > fun at all to discover that root had 17.3 seconds > in which to un-install the mods each time he/she/it > logged in. > This is why you set up a test login and install either sh or csh (which ever you happen to be working on) someplace like /usr/local/testbin. After it has been proven to work you then move the OLD shell to something like csh.OLD and install the NEW shell. The site that I work for functions as a service center, thus our users ask for a selectable, adjustable idle timer. This was installed with a total investment of LESS than 10 lines of code, as most of the calls already exist. I realize that daemons seem to be the way that MOST things are handled in UN*X, but why complicate a rather easy task. (provided that you have source). Sam Kimery kimery@FORD-WDL1