Unix Tip: KILL IDLE USERS

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Unix Tip 3086 - July 19, 2009

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KILL IDLE USERS

Here is a quick script to kill idle users at the 10 hour mark.

Cchange the 10 to the hour you would like to kill at and #run as cron every hour This is for HP UNIX, check the fields on the "who" command for your flavor

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who -u | cut -c 1-10,39-50 | grep 10: > current
for each IDLE_USR ( `cat current | awk '{print $3}'` )
kill -9 $IDLE_USR
end
exit (0)

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