Idle Users

[Bill Akers]

Bob Rasmussen wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, I've seen cases where people claim they've been having problems
>>caused by people clicking "x" instead of exiting, and I have seen that
>>the telnet session is still alive.  (A "who" still shows it logged in,
>>and "ps" shows everything still running.)  Now, if these were actually
>>leftovers from "x"ing out, or caused by a connection reset instead, I
>>can't say.  But, I have seen it often enough that I find it hard to
>>believe that they're all connection resets.  (They always claim that
>>users are "x"ing out, not that they are mysteriously disconnected.
>>Now, back in dialup days, dropped connections were more prevalent.)
> 
> 
> Could these be caused by trapped SIGHUPs?

I had a problem with the sessions not being terminated and orphan 
processes left running by idleout in SCO Unix, which I traced to the 
user's .profile having had "trap ' 1 2 3" added by someone probably with 
the idea of preventing the user from using delete to exit to the shell 
instead of exiting and closing the session. If the user used the 'X' the 
session closed ok. Once I commented out the trap command the sessions 
started closing properly with idleout.

> 
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William Akers
MGM Industries, Inc.
Hendersonville TN USA