I think I remember something about the one minute time diff.
I have to say, that I do use it in a couple of our applications. We have a few abusive users who will open up the database and stay in it for days if not forced out. We do have a nightly shutdown policy and users are told to reboot at lunch, but enforcing is rarely done.. Go figure... Anyway, I know of a few times the I get complaints from the users of getting knocked out, but I have set the TIMEOUT to 60 minutes, and I stick to them being kicked out if they don't use it. I just wish it worked when the are in forms, and reports and such. I didn't know about running something if it fires.. great idea! Some cleanup and a little user feedback would be a good idea at this point. Something like HEY butthead, you haven't done anything in the database for an hour, I shut your connection down so other who acutally do work can get something done.
Well, maybe a little more politically correct adjustment could be done to the above statement.. maybe
Jim
A. Razzak Memon wrote:
At 11:31 AM 8/4/2003 -0400, Jim Limberg wrote:
SET TIMEOUT 60 only works if they are not in a form or report, etc... Almost useless for a lot of situations.
Jim,
Did you know that in R:BASE 6.5++ (Build:1.842xRT03) and higher:
If TIMEOUT was set to 1 it always exited after one minute. Now when TIMEOUT is set to one it will actually take two minutes of inactivity for it to exit. Two takes 2, three takes 3, and so on. What we do is start a timer loop that fires every minute. Each minute it increments a "no activity" flag which is reset to 0 if there is keystroke activity. This is why there is nothing to "reset" until the first minute passes. We have also added a close of any open database just before it bails out too.
The default for TIMEOUT is 0 (zero), which does not activate a countdown. TIMEOUT is set in minutes (not seconds), and all workstations must set TIMEOUT separately.
When a TIMEOUT occurs, a command file can be run; however, the command file cannot include a FILLIN or DIALOG command, or expect a keystroke. If you want to run a command file when a TIMEOUT occurs, you need to store the name of the file in a variable called RBTI_TimeOut.
For example:
SET VARIABLE RBTI_TIMEOUT TEXT = 'c:\word\cleanup.rmd' Note: The command file must end with a RETURN command.
The following command line will exit a user to the operating system after the user's workstation is inactive for one hour:
SET TIMEOUT 60
Hope that helps.
Have Fun!
Very Best R:egards,
Razzak.
