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From: Daniel Baker <dbaker@Concorde-Mail.NeoSoft.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Idle time...
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 06:53:19 -0500
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On 25 May 1995, Kortelainen Mika wrote:
> louis@scls1 (Louis A. DeRobertis) writes:
>
> > Can anyone think of a quick/easy way to logout a user that has been idle for X amount of minutes?
>
> I don't know how but at least my NetBSD (Amiga version) does logout me if
> I'm idle too many minutes (or about an hour I guess). I was logged as
> root then, but probably it does the same for other users, too.
There ARE options in tcsh to log you out after a certain number of idle
minutes.. or it might be seconds..
> I don't know is this the default behaviour in any *BSD or just in NetBSD...
It sure dosen't do that in FreeBSD.
> Mika Kortelainen
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