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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.
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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