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Hi,
We have a generic login id :- ship1 .
There can be any number of sessions for this login ID. I'm working on a way to log off idle sessions ( not logins) . I searched the forum and found
TMOUT. Is it at login level or session level ? ( looks like it is at login level)
But I added it to .profile
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TMOUT=100
export TMOUT
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Then I tried logging as ship1 , but it did not log out the user after 100 seconds..
Even if it works, will it work at session level ? I don't want to logoff sessions which are active . Is there any unix command to find out session idle time, so that I could use that in my application program .( this is second option if we can't do it at profile level)

We are using Solaris 2.8 .

Any ideas ??

Thanks..

Code:

TMOUT=100
readonly TMOUT
export TMOUT

Is how to do it for a login with /bin/sh or /bin/ksh. For Solaris, I do not know if it works this way.

You have to create a readonly environment variable - I don't know the csh or tcsh setenv command to do so.

I tried adding that in the .profile..but it did not work..
Is there any way to auto logout the session if it exceeds certain time OR to know how much time the session was idle ?

Thanks..