Ghost Users
socs
server is that sometimes users tend to forget to logout. So when I check the
users who are logged in using finger/who/whodo it shows me alot of users who
are idle for long period of time.
In some cases this is true, but sometimes the user have not logged out
properly and there exist this ghost user in the list when I type who. How to
create a script or whatever to kill users who are idle for long period of
time and the ghost users.
Pls help....... Urgent ....... Giving extra work to do for me ...... Pls
......
Michael Thomas Cope
In comp.unix.questions socs <so...@po.jaring.my> wrote:
: I am running a Sun Solaris Server. One problem I have with my Unix
Instead of doing this you may want to increase the number of pty's to
allow more connections.
http://www3.hmc.edu/docs/coolstuff/etcsystem/
After making sure this is really what you want to do...
and assuming you are using tcsh or csh for user's shell:
add the line
set autologout = 86400 #logout after 24 hours of idle time
to your /etc/.login file
be aware that users can put
unset autologout
in there ~/.cshrc to disable this.
-Mike
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Michael Cope: Harvey Mudd College '00; Armand Hammer UWC '96
E-mail: Michae...@hmc.edu
Pasquale Angiuli
socs wrote:
> I am running a Sun Solaris Server. One problem I have with my Unix
> server is that sometimes users tend to forget to logout. So when I check the
> users who are logged in using finger/who/whodo it shows me alot of users who
> are idle for long period of time.
>
> In some cases this is true, but sometimes the user have not logged out
> properly and there exist this ghost user in the list when I type who. How to
> create a script or whatever to kill users who are idle for long period of
> time and the ghost users.
>
> Pls help....... Urgent ....... Giving extra work to do for me ...... Pls
> ......
see /etc/default/login
by
Randy Styka
>
> I am running a Sun Solaris Server. One problem I have with my Unix
> server is that sometimes users tend to forget to logout. So when I check the
> users who are logged in using finger/who/whodo it shows me alot of users who
> are idle for long period of time.
>
> In some cases this is true, but sometimes the user have not logged out
> properly and there exist this ghost user in the list when I type who. How to
> create a script or whatever to kill users who are idle for long period of
> time and the ghost users.
>
will show users who really aren't on the system. If the issue
truly is idle users, you can use the TMOUT environment variable,
if users get to a shell prompt.
Our company wrote (and sells) a program called LOGMON that
logs off idle users. We monitor cpu usage for each user and
their child processes. LOGMON lets you vary the inactivity time
by user, time of day, etc. We won't log off a user who is
running a long job with no keyboard activity, unlike other
approaches. For details, send a message to log...@computron.com.
Good luck!
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Slawomir Oczkowski
>
> socs wrote:
>
> > I am running a Sun Solaris Server. One problem I have with my Unix
> > server is that sometimes users tend to forget to logout. So when I check the
> > users who are logged in using finger/who/whodo it shows me alot of users who
> > are idle for long period of time.
> >
> > In some cases this is true, but sometimes the user have not logged out
> > properly and there exist this ghost user in the list when I type who. How to
> > create a script or whatever to kill users who are idle for long period of
> > time and the ghost users.
> >
> > ......
>
> see /etc/default/login
>
> by
.... and set the TIMEOUT parameter to time you want....
by too.