On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:23:15 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt >> >> I guess the audit approved path would be to require the user >> to sign on, perform the task, then sign off. Indeed, our last >> audit looked at inactivity time outs. > > ... And the shell does not time out while a user command is running. And so a > simple "sleep 8h" will defeat the shell timeout. And it uses no CPU resource. > The user simply does a <cntrl>c when they come back to their terminal. > VM/CMS has (had?) a session inactivity timeout. And CP SLEEP didn't circumvent it -- it actually looked for CPU resource consumption. But there was a two-minute warning. And I knew several users who trapped the warning and issued a trivial command causing the inactivity timer to reset.
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