Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!elroy!jpl-devvax!lwall From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals Message-ID: <3603@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 29 Nov 88 19:39:28 GMT References: <201.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> <8978@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2682@sultra.UUCP> <9012@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 9 Doug Gwyn writes: : Because any automated scheme you come up is likely to ALSO kill off : some perfectly legitimate jobs. Not only that, but idle-killers are so easy to spoof, unless you disable people from executing utime() or ioctl(). Larry Wall lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov