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From: mchinni@ardec.arpa (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re:  Autologout of unused terminals
Message-ID: <17665@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Nov 88 16:23:00 GMT
Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL
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Doug Gwyn writes:
> There are many ways to deal with careless terminal users other than
> automatic idle-terminal killer software.

	Like what?  How else can you deal with the problem of careless terminal
users at the time they are being careless?

	Of course, you could have the system admin. staff monitor the system
and manually kill such idle terminal sessions. This however is cumbersome given
several systems with large user populations and small system admin. staffs.

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