UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello

We are using UNIX, (?) there were reports to us thAt their login was automatically killed, however we (root) did not issue a kill -9 PID, can anyone give me an idea what happen. To add, the user is not idled, he is actually doing something.

also, i search all the thread, donno if i missed one,
i wanted to know how to automatic kill a login in a specified time (say 60mins)
i tried the TMOUT but it does not work. i added the command in the .profile of the user.

Thanks in advance.

Please post the output of the uname -a command, so we know which UNIX you're working with.

Cheers
ZB

Hi,
here is the output

SCO_SV new 3.2 5.0.6 i386

Thanks

check the value of TIMEOUT of your shell

Hi,

Sorry i am just new in UNIX scripting. Did i made it right. I add the 2 lines in users .profile


PS1="`logname` $ "
TERM=ansi
DLC=/usr/dlc
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/cpu/mn:$DLC/bin: # set command search path
MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/`logname` # mailbox location
export PATH MAIL TERM DLC
mesg -y
stty intr ^C
TMOUT=3
readonly TMOUT
echo $TMOUT


Say after 3 mins it will automatically logged out. right?
Nothing happened, listing the user:

# s
# who -u |grep lance
lance ttyp3 Jul 3 18:43 0:17 26158
# w |grep lance
lance ttyp3 6:43pm 18 - - dd bs=1 count=1


Did i miss something? Or it does worked in our version?

Thanks

to the end of all that, add

export TMOUT

Also, i'd change that TMOUT value. 3 seconds might be a little optimistic for most users typing abilities....

Cheers
ZB