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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Write a scripts to kill idle user for 60 min. & email user list to admin in text file Post 302510301 by guto on Saturday 2nd of April 2011 10:05:39 PM
Old 04-02-2011
sumit30,
if I was you, based on the output of 'whoidle', I would probably lunch it with the option to get all the idle users in the system and save it to a file within the same directory with the script. supposing the option is '-a', it would something like this: 'whoidle -a' >ALL_IDLE_USERS

this code has not been tested on an AIX system. I tested it on my laptop using the sample data you supplied and it's working like a charm.
Code:
------------------------beginning script-------------------------
DATE=`date +%D`
TIME=`date +%T`
HNAME=`uname -n`
LFILE=$(uname -n)_Idle_Users_$(date +%h)_$(date +%d)_$(date +%y).txt
SUBJECT="$HNAME Idle User List"
EMAIL="admin@yourdomain.com"
HEAD=`cat IDLE_USERS |sed q`
cat ALL_IDLE_USERS |sed '1d' |egrep -v "root|daemon|bin|sys|adm|nobody|abc|pqr" >IDLE_USERS
IDL=`cat IDLE_USERS |awk '{ print $6}'`
echo  -e "---------------------------------------------- \nDATE: $DATE\t\t  TIME:  $TIME\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"  > $LFILE
echo -e "$HEAD\t\tStatus" >> $LFILE

for DL in $IDL
  do
    H=`echo $DL |cut -d: -f1`; M=` echo $DL |cut -d: -f2`
    if [ $H -gt 0 ] || [ $M -eq 60 ]; then
       kill -15 $PID;
       CLINE=`grep -w $DL ALL_IDLE_USERS`
       RUNNING=`ps -p $PID |sed '1d'`
       if [ "$RUNING" == "" ]; then
          echo -e "$CLINE \tKilled" >> $LFILE
       else
          echo -e "$CLINE \tRunning" >> $LFILE
       fi
    fi
done
echo -e "-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $LFILE

if [ -s $LFILE ]; then
   mail -s $SUBJECT $EMAIL < $LFILE
   touch $LFILE.txt
fi
----------------end script---------------

this is an elegant way of resolving your problem without the need for any complications: such as the 8th point.
in my opinion 8th point isn't necessary. thus, the code that I supplied to you the other time isn't needed because you are not dealing with a file or a variable that must continue growing.
for instance, if you were picking the idle users from a certain system-log-file which must continue growing as the system is running and logging various events, then you would need to have a way to loop through that file as long as it continues to increase. but your problem is much simple based on what I perceive from your explanation.
as far as I know, the technique that intend to use on point 8 is normally used to monitor specific regexs in a log-files.
NEXT TIME, I'M GONNA CHARGE YOU A FEE OR SOMETHING! lol; I am at home for over a year. I need to get paid....
Last edited by DukeNuke2; 04-03-2011 at 03:09 AM..
 

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