Solaris

From time to time, we have users that remain logged in for days. Me being a DBA and not a Solaris SysAdmin person, have no clue how to kill a process based on the date/time stamp from the ps -ef command.

I might not even be making any sense.

For example, if a person as been logged in for more than 12 hours I want to kill that process. How do I use the kill command to do that?

I guess I forgot to mention that it's possible for us to have more than 40 processes to "weed through", so I prefer to do this with one command and not have to issue the kill command for ever process.

This is not as straighforward as you think. Killing a user session means killing the process that the user logged in with. I mean, if the users login using telnet, then you have to check all telnetd processes for a process that may be older than 12 hours, and kill it.
So you need to tell us how users login (telnet/ssh/something else) i.e. what process to search for.

This should give you some insight:

http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/...killLogins.txt

Depending on what shell you are on, there is another "scriptless" fashion to get the job done, just set the TMOUT environment variable on the "target's login profile" or just try it on a ksh prompt

Code:

shell$ export TMOUT=5  # will logout after 5mn