Re: [cobalt-users] Idle Person in Telnet

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, Mike Fritsch wrote:

> 
> I have a user who sits idle in telnet, is there anyway I can log the user
> off?

You can look up his process id with ps and kill it (usually a shell, ie
bash) don't kill telnetd it's the wrong end ;0
looking up his PID can be tedious, and killing yourself tends to be
embarresing, you also need to be root to actully do it...

ps: make sure it's really dead afterwards, linux has a long standing bug
that every once in a while a killed telnet session goes haywire and uses
up all the cpu time available doing nothing ;


I vaguely remember an option to kill shells when they are idle for some 
amount of time....maybe a utility?


> 
> Thanks
>   Mike
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