On Sat, 01 Nov 1997 21:48:52 EST Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm looking for a timeout program which will _NOT_ kill my xterm sessions > but will kill my idle telnet sessions. I attempted to do this with idled > by making it ignore users in a 'console' group which the login program > added to the user's groups. The only problem is XDM doesn't add users to > any groups. > > What is tricky is determining if the user is on locally or telneting > because both xterm and telnet use /etc/ttyp* ... > > Has anyone done this before or have any ideas?
You can always look at which process has the matching pty open. It will be xterm for a xterm session or in.telnetd for a telnet session. You can do that with fuser. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
