Why can't you just put export TMOUT=3600 readonly TMOUT
in /etc/profile ? If it doesn't work, contact the vendor (IBM for AIX) for a patch. --- "Akens, Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I'm a sys-admin on an AIX (4.3) machine, and I'm trying to work > with a vendor program that doesn't behave very nicely. Basically, > if a user's connection to the server is inappropriately severed > the application keeps right on chugging, leaving the user > logged in. By inappropriately severed I mean if our link to the > site the user is at goes down, which happens more often then > I'd like, but that's a different problem. > > Anyway, back to the question... > There are quite a few problems with these unconnected sessions > being stuck out there, not least of which is that they eat up a > user license, which are pretty limited in amount. One good power > outage or link failure at can make it so we're out of licenses. > In that event the vendor says "Kill them by hand, do NOT automate > the process" which is all fine and good except that we have > several hundred users. That's a lot of time. > > The first thought was to use a shell idle logout time, but the > program doesn't respond to the request and remains logged in. > > The previous administrator had made a shell script to check idle > times and automatically log out the users, however since I've > taken over the box the uptimes have been far greater (I don't > believe in the same "reboot often" premise that he did) and now > his script has shown a severe weakness: It's not written to > handle longer PIDs. > > Rather then trying to fix his shell script, which is rather > convoluted, I thought it would be a perfect candidate for perl, > which I am just learning. If I post the script, can I get some > pointers on re-writing it? Thanks for your time > > Tony Akens > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
