Autologout of unused terminals

[Vincent C. Hatem]

In article <83 at cosmic.sns.UUCP>, holgi at sns.UUCP (Holger Kollmer) writes:
# In article <201.nlunix6 at orcenl.uucp> bengsig at orcenl.uucp (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
# #Is there any way to see if a terminal has not been used for some time,
# #and if it hasn't, to send a hangup to the processes there?  We are looking
# 
# You can make stat(2) on the tty. That system call returns st_mtime and 
# st_atime which shows the last access and modification time. 

You could also use 'who -u' (on Sys V), which tells the idle time...

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