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From: gerlach@netcom.com (Matthew H. Gerlach)
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In article <6v0b8l$ppa$1@samba.rahul.net> dold@network.rahul.net writes:
>Lygo Systems (lsystemsd@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
>
>: I have a number of users connecting with MS-DOS Kermit telnet sessions
>: into Redhat Linux (4.2 & 5.1). If they close the connection with the
>: normal Kermit exit command without first logging off, then the telnet
>: session is closed on Linux which is just what I want. If, however, they
>: reboot their PC with ALT CTL DEL then the session stays active.
Depending on the shell that the users use on the Linux box, one could
have the shell implement an idle timeout. The Bourne Again Shell, bash,
has such a feature. So if the user doesn't enter commands for a while
it closes the shell which in turn would close down the telnet session.
This feature is discussed in the O'Reilly BASH book.
Matthew H. Gerlach