How to disconnect idle dialup users?

Kevin D. Quitt kdq at demott.COM
Tue Nov 27 17:00:55 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov27.015820.18884 at cubmol.bio.columbia.edu> ping at cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang) writes:
>Some users dialup onto the machine and hang on for hours doing nothing.
>I tried to disconnect the hookup using the kill command but failed.


    If you've a Telebit modem, register S41 can be set in tenths of
hours, from 0 (disabled) to 255.  When the timer expires, the modem
hangs up the line. 

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