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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:23:59 -0400 (AST)
From: Charles Tassell <ctassell@isn.net>
To: Tushar Patel <tushar@ecpi.com>
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Subject: Re: Disconnect when idle time is > 20 min?
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  This is just a quick hack off the top of my head, but you could write a 
perl script which uses's the who command to list users, then parses the 
data.  If the idle time is greater than 20 minutes (or whatever) then the 
script kills the process.  The script would be run by root as a cron job 
every 20 minutes or so.

  I'm no perl wizard, but it doesn't sound to complex a script to write 
if you know any perl.


On Fri, 2 Feb 1996, Tushar Patel wrote:

> 
> I am looking for some insight for tracking the activity on the
> dial in ports (ttyd?). I wan't to see if the particular dial
> in port has no activity for more then 15 min then I wan't to
> disconnect user on that port. Is there any options you can
> specify in FreeBSD which will allow you to do this?
> 
>  This problem is solved when user log's in with the PPP connection.
> There is an option for setting timeout in the "ppp.conf" file to
> do this.
> 
> Please send your replay to
> tpatel@ecpi.com
> 
> Thanks for taking time.
> 
> Tushar
>