On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:44:33AM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
>Rajesh Fowkar forced the electrons to say:
>> key is pressed during this period. Many users just load the
>> package but don't do any work on that node, is such cases
>> after 30 minutes the user should be automatically logged
>> out.
>
>Hmm... If you have access to the source code, then you can hack it to
>suit your needs. In any case, you can try sending a wishlist item to the
>package's vendor. :-) I cannot see any other solution to your problem.
OK
>
>> This works with TMOUT only if the user is at the shell
>> prompt.
>
>That's because TMOUT is used only by bash. Other program's don't
>generally look in the environment for TMOUT or honour it if found. In
>fact, your users could switch to tcsh and ignore your TMOUT settings, or
>put unset TMOUT in their own bash profiles. :-)
Since the users don't have shell access changing of user profiles does not come
into picture.
>
>> But here we are not giving access to shell, from
>> their bashrc the package is loaded and on exiting the
>> package they get the login prompt back hence our problem.
>
>Now why do you want to do that? Give them access to the shell, let them
>also enjoy Linux and its wonderful CLI - this might even prompt them to
>try Linux for their home PC if and when they buy one. :-)
True. But I am not the Sysadmin here :-) The stuff what we were doing in SCO is
continued in Linux that's all. What you have said is in a way true. Some users
not all might get really interested in linux if given shell access. Most of the
users don't know any commands here. They are just operating the packages that's
all and I said nothing is in my hands here. :-)
Regards
--
Rajesh Fowkar
(Computer Programmer)
V. S. DEMPO & CO. LTD., PANAJI-GOA
Email ID : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site : http://www.dempos.com
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