Idle time logout mechanism (daemon)

Chuq Von Rospach chuqui at nsc.UUCP
Sat Jul 20 17:50:28 AEST 1985


In article <11650 at brl-tgr.ARPA> Crispin at SUMEX-AIM.ARPA (Mark Crispin) writes:
>
>     The best way to make users clever enough to defeat fascist
>daemons is create such a daemon.  It sounds to me like you have
>You do not need tobad communication with your user community.

Well, here my problem is that I have three modems that are used by a wide
variety of people in various places that get called to meetings, that get
interrupted by the phone, and are generally trying to do 5 or 10 things at
once. Occasionally they forget to log off or hang up their modem, and I
lost one of those modems from use until I track it down and unplug it. None
of this is fascist, just trying to free up forgotten resources because we
have a large (and growing) community of users that need the modems. I need
a daemon mainly to help people that sometimes forget in all honesty
remember again.

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