Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 09:48:32 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: map@iphil.net (Miguel A.L. Paraz) Cc: barney@databus.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh hanging around after disconnect Message-ID: <199603161548.JAA24225@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199603160549.NAA05822@marikit.iphil.net> from "Miguel A.L. Paraz" at Mar 16, 96 01:49:24 pm
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> Hello!
>
> I'm having the same problem... except I'm using bash.
>
> Barney Wolff wrote:
>
> > The only answer to this, and not
> > a very swift one, is to run TCP keep-alives on all telnet and poppassd
> > sessions on your host, and that will eventually detect that the user's
> > gone away.
>
> How is this done? Is this a separate daemon, or an option to compile
> in these daemons?
It's something that doesn't exist but would be implemented by adding a
little code to all the networking daemons. Particularly the daemons without
timeouts..
> Another way - can we looked through the logged in users at regular
> intervals and find out who's disconnected? You could compare this
> against the list of logged in users ('show sessions'), but
> we'd have to differentiate from users who are telnetted in from
> somewhere else...
No, that gets to be very difficult very quickly.
... Joe
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