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Old 03-16-2011
Removing Inactive Sessions

Hi,

I have the following script:
Code:
 
 
# Inactive Users Removed
#
# Created by: stuaz
# Created on: 16/03/11
#
# This script runs from the Cron
####################################
# Variables
email=blah@blah.com
log=/utils/sdennis/inactiveusers.log
#
# Command to find inactive users and there process numbers
my=`/usr/bin/who -u|/usr/bin/grep -v nppp|/usr/bin/awk '{ if($6>"1:00") print($7
)}'`
# Command to list users in Email
my2=`/usr/bin/who -u|/usr/bin/grep -v nppp|/usr/bin/awk '{ if($6>"1:00") print (
"Username: " $1 " " "Inactive for: " $6)}'`
echo $my
# Send list of inactive users to log file.
echo $my2 > $log
# Email log file
cat $log | mail -s "Inactive Users Removed from the System" $email
# Run deleteuser command to remove inactive users
if [ "$my" ]
then
/u/ud/bin/deleteuser $my >/dev/null 2>&1
fi

All it does is check the "who" for people who have been inactive for the past hour and then emails that list to me. Then with that list it runs the "deleteuser" command which will gracefully log them off.

The problem I have is while this script will work if it finds one user, it will fail and do nothing if it encounters multiple people.

How can I modify this to accept that there may be multiple people who are inactive for an hour and remove them?

Thanks,
# 2  
Old 03-16-2011
What is your system? What is your shell? Is it possible to modify deleteuser or must it be done from here?
# 3  
Old 03-16-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
What is your system? What is your shell? Is it possible to modify deleteuser or must it be done from here?
It is AIX, and the shell is /bin/sh. Deleteuser cannot be modified.
# 4  
Old 03-16-2011
Assuming the users have no spaces, this could do:

Code:
[ ! -z "$my" ] && for U in $my
do
        /u/ud/bin/deleteuser $U >/dev/null 2>&1
done

There is a limit on the maximum number of arguments sh can fit in an argument list like that, but unless you have hundreds and hundreds of logins to kill I think the limit should be sufficient.
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