idle users

[Brian K. White]

On 11/13/2011 3:57 PM, William J. McEachran wrote:
> For years on Linux I used a package called 'autolog' to manage idle
>   filePro sessions.
> Though not perfect, it did a pretty good job of handling idle user sessions.
>
> I notice that the autolog package isn't included on CentOS or openSuse
> anymore but remains in Ubuntu server.
>
> This makes me think that there may be a better idle out type package out
> there for Linux with which I'm not familiar.
>
> Question:
> - How are you handling idle filePro users?
>

killerd
It's in the stock opensuse repos.

I've had problems with autolog also. It hangs fairly often on my boxes. 
Generally I do not have it enabled anywhere any more.

I also took the idleout script from a sco box, adjusted it for linux, 
added support to exclude root from being idled out, and inserted my 
"headless" script for finding orphaned filepro processes. It's handy 
once in a while.

If you want to stay scrupulously clear of even a hint of copyright 
violation, there is a much more complex nidleout that would also need to 
be changed a lot for linux. But it is ultimately just a script and can 
be changed. Similarly Tony Lawrence wrote a perl script called piddle.

I can't legally redistribute the the modified idleout since it was SCO's 
not mine, but piddle, nidleout and headless are here:

http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/piddle.html
ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/admin/nidleout
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/filepro/#headless

Note the nidleout link sometimes fails simply because ftp.armory.com is 
an old machine on a slow connection. Just try again some other time.
Just now it worked fine once for me, then not again for at least an 
hour. But it DID work that first time.

Also found this thanks to Tony Lawrence. Looks promising but I haven't 
tried it myself yet.

http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com/2009/03/idle-process-time-on-linux-and-unix-how.html

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bkw