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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users HP-UX users get logged off while idle. Post 302118078 by Laoinjo on Friday 18th of May 2007 08:44:13 AM
Old 05-18-2007
HP-UX users get logged off while idle.

Im "supporting" at least 2500 HP-UX workstations with CAD-related software with the B.11.11 build. I cant say anymore than that because of my companys sligtly paranoid security policy .
The last few days a new problem has arised from nowhere.

The problem is that users gets logged off when the screenlock should have kicked in (after 10 minutes of idletime). It doesnt happen to all the users and we have the same image installed on all Workstations. No discs are full. And the problem seems to be local since users have the same problem if the try the same computer. If they lend a collegues computer, the problem is gone. I dont think its a RAM issue because there are machines with 2 gig RAM wich runs well while machines with 4 gig RAM can start behaving like this.
The users store and fetch all ther modelfiles from a network of servers. The is no function which unmounts idle networkmounts so that is not the issue either. We are using NIS and Selang for useraccessrights and pushing out UNIX-ids to the local machines.


I havent found any kind of errors in the logs that wasnt there before. Anyone who has experrienced this problem before? Anyone got a clue? Im puzzled...
Im open to any suggestion even the spacy ones. Hey, even stupid suggestions are welcomed!

This is bigger issue than one can think because it takes 15-20 minutes for our users to get all the aplications and networkfunctions up to be able to work on the 3D-models.

Someone pliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz Smilie
 

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rwho(1) 							   User Commands							   rwho(1)

NAME
rwho - who is logged in on local machines SYNOPSIS
rwho [-a] DESCRIPTION
The rwho command produces output similar to who(1), but for all machines on your network. If no report has been received from a machine for 5 minutes, rwho assumes the machine is down, and does not report users last known to be logged into that machine. If a user has not typed to the system for a minute or more, rwho reports this idle time. If a user has not typed to the system for an hour or more, the user is omitted from the output of rwho unless the -a flag is given. OPTIONS
-a Report all users whether or not they have typed to the system in the past hour. FILES
/var/spool/rwho/whod.* information about other machines ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | |Availability |SUNWrcmds | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
finger(1), ruptime(1), who(1), in.rwhod(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
rwho does not work through gateways. The directory /var/spool/rwho must exist on the host from which rwho is run. This service takes up progressively more network bandwith as the number of hosts on the local net increases. For large networks, the cost becomes prohibitive. The rwho service daemon, in.rwhod(1M), must be enabled for this command to return useful results. SunOS 5.10 6 Nov 2000 rwho(1)
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