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NAME

away - terminal locking program

SYNOPSIS

away [OPTIONS] message [...]

DESCRIPTION

away is a simple program that locks your terminal, checks for new mail in any given number of mailboxes, and lets other users know why you are inactive.

OPTIONS

Enable checking of mail.
Disable checking of mail.
Specify an alternative configuration file instead of the default ~/.awayrc file.
Ignore user configuration file.
Display help.
Execute as the remainder of the command line, effectively stripping off the executable name and additional switches.
Continue checking for new mail as long as there is at least one mailbox that has not received new mail.
Stop checking mail if any mailbox is found to have new mail.
Set the number of second that away sleeps before performing its background tasks. Presently, the only background task that away will perform is the checking of mailboxes.
Ignore any options to set the time interval and use the default number of seconds.
Display version information.

FILES

~/.awayrc

Per user configuration file. See awayrc(5) for further details.

/etc/pam.d/away

The Linux-PAM configuration file.

BUGS

Bug reports should be sent to the away mailing list <away@unbeatenpath.net>.

SEE ALSO

awayrc(5)

AUTHORS

Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>, and others.

November 2000 Linux