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From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: PPP disconect after a period of time
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:47:21 GMT
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luba@tikal.net.gt (Luis F. Barrera) wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>	
>i'd like to know , if there is a way to disconnect someone if he/she
>has not used the PPP link after, let's say 30 minutes. I got
>the message PPP stalled, I guess that means that user did not use the 
>link for a very long period of time. 

 I think the only way to do this would be to read "w" and see the
users total idle time, and if its > than 30mins kill his PPP process.
I think the scripting of it would be a bit difficult.. Let me know if
there is another way.