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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: jal@MCS.COM (John A. LaCour III) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Limiting Online Time Date: 23 Sep 1994 23:51:58 -0500 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 18 Message-ID: <360b9e$h8v@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <CwLnBq.439@nsinet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com In article <CwLnBq.439@nsinet.com>, Cam Bevis <cbevis@nsinet.com> wrote: > Hello all. One of my tty ports is hooked to a modem on which customers >can call. Some of them are over-staying their welcome on this modem. Is >there a way I can limit their online time? I thought of cron'ing a >shell script that would grep and parse the process table and act on the >info accordingly. Better ideas, anyone? Thanks. Cam Many modems can be configured so that when no data is passed for a certain length of time, the connection is dropped. If such an option is available to you, that would be my recommendation. If you must write a program, I would suggest having cron run a program that compares the login time from lastlog with the current time, for users current logged in. Should be easier than play with process stuff. John