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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Does BSD support autologout?
Date: 6 Aug 94 05:30:59 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <31r0f4$6iu@matrix.eden.com> jprice@eden.com (J.P. Price) writes:

>Does BSD support a feature that will autologout a user after a specified
>time limit, via a daemon or somesuch?

This has nothing to do with operating system you're running.  Either
every unix will do this, or no unix will do this, depending on which
shell you use on each.

Tcsh supports autologout.  Tcsh compiles on NetBSD and FreeBSD (and
Linux and this and that and the other).

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    michaelv@iastate.edu                    Project Vincent Systems Staff
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