NAME¶
autolog - Log out idle users
SYNOPSIS¶
autolog [
options ]
DESCRIPTION¶
The program reads the utmp file, entry by entry. The username for each 'user
process' is compared to the entries in the configuration file (see
autolog.conf(5) ). The first entry to match both the name, the group,
and the tty line of the process will be used to conduct the automatic logout.
CALL¶
- /etc/init.d/autolog start
- or
- autolog
- to run this program in daemon-mode
- autolog -o
- to run this program as "ordinary" program. Keep
in mind: Also when running as ordinary program, it will stay in memory
until all its jobs are done.
OPTIONS¶
- -a
- (all processes) Print information on ALL utmp entries--not
just user processes.
- -d
- (debug mode) This is helpful in setting up your
configuration file. The program runs in foreground rather than forking and
it prints out verbose messages about what it is doing.
- -n
- (nokill) Use this to prevent autolog from actually
"killing" anyone. Use -d and -n together when setting up a new
configuration file. ( This will not affect killing of lost processes.
)
- -o
- (ordinary) Use this to run this program as ordinary
program, not as daemon. Program will end, when its job is done. In this
case, some data is kept in "/var/lib/autolog/autolog.data". This
is read, when the program is called again.
- -f config_file_name
- Use this to override the default:
"/etc/autolog.conf"
- -l log_file_name
- Use this to override the default:
"/var/log/autolog.log". Note that if this file doesn't exist, no
logging will happen. Create the file (with touch) to enable logging.
- -t idle_time
- Use this to override the internal default idle time
(minutes)
- -g grace_period
- Use this to override the internal default grace period
(seconds)
- -m yes/no
- Use this to override the internal mailing switch. If
"yes" the program will send mail to the users right after
killing them.
- -c yes/no
- Use this to override the internal "pre-clear"
switch. If "yes" the program will clear the terminal screen
before warning the user.
- -w yes/no
- Do timeouts based on total session time--not idle time.
(hard)
- -l yes/no
- If set to "yes" activities will be written to the
logfile if present.
AUTHOR¶
Kyle Bateman <kyle@actarg.com> (autolog 0.35),
- Carsten Juerges
<juerges@cip-bau.uni-hannover.de>
-
(autolog 0.40)
This manual page was modified for
Debian by Paul Telford
<pxt@debian.org>