Solaris

We have a script that runs 24/7 in cron to log off idle users that have been idle for over 1 hour.

The majority of our users use Sun Ray Terminals to log into a server. I've tested the TMOUT variable by setting it on the server and it does kill their inactive windows but does not log them out of the system. I have also tested the variable on a Sun Ultra 20 and my inactive windows close out after the specified time period but the session is still established. Is there some way to force a complete logout of the system after a specified time period?

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mikep9

We have a script that runs 24/7 in cron to log off idle users that have been idle for over 1 hour.
Could you possibly post that script?

The proper way to programatically end Sun Ray sessions is using

Code:

utsession -k ...

#!/bin/bash

who -u | cut -c 1-10,38-50 | egrep "[1-9]:|old" > /tmp/idle$$

for idleSession in `cat /tmp/idle$$ | awk '{print $3}'`
do
if [ -t 0 ]; then
echo killing session $idleSession
fi
kill -9 $idleSession
done


This script seems to do the trick but I'm not sure that it's really using idle time in order to kill the sessions.

You'll probably want to get familiar with the tools before relying on this forum alone, but it would seem: yes, it is using idle time.

However, since it's grepping the entire line for either/both a number between 1 and 9 followed by a colon and the string 'old', it could be improved some by focusing on the Idle Time column. For example,

Code:

who -u |nawk ' /[3-9]:/ !~ $6 || /old/ !~ $6 {print $0;} '