Autologout of unused terminals

Larry Wall lwall at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Wed Nov 30 05:39:28 AEST 1988


Doug Gwyn writes:
: Because any automated scheme you come up is likely to ALSO kill off
: some perfectly legitimate jobs.

Not only that, but idle-killers are so easy to spoof, unless you disable
people from executing utime() or ioctl().

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov



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