Corey Clingo's shell script is the latest addition to the Cassandra Project's archive of tools. For more information about his script, please read the attached e-mail, which, as you will see, is made into the readme file for his script. http://www.thecassandraproject.org/archive.html (under shell scripts) http://www.thecassandraproject.org/archive2.html (under Alarm & Display utils) Thanks, Corey. Duc -- The Cassandra Project http://www.thecassandraproject.org/ >From: Corey R Clingo <clingoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:10:58 -0500 >Subject: Idle DM shutdown script > >I wrote this little script to keep all our DM licenses from being "locked" by >folks who called up remote DMs on their PCs and left them up during coffee >breaks, vacations, etc. It prefs the values of PICK1 (currently selected C:B:P) >and ST0 (name of current display) periodically to see if the remote DM user has >done anything in the DM window. It is crude but fairly effective. > >It is a ksh script, run in the background, so you invoke it like this: > >nohup kill_idle_dm.sh 2>&1 >/dev/null & > >There are several variables that control the script's operation > >DELAY - number of seconds between checks for "idle" DMs >DM_INACT_LIMIT - number of times a DM can appear "idle" before the script kills >it >DMNAMES - names of DMs to monitor >MYNAME - the string used in the "killed by" message the user gets when the DM is >killed > >I tried to comment the script to this effect as well. > >If anyone has any questions, they can e-mail me at clingoc@xxxxxxxxx > >Corey Clingo >Sr. Engineer >BASF Corporation _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.messagelabs.com/stats.asp ___________________________________________________________________ This list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by The Foxboro Company. Use the information obtained here at your own risk. For disclaimer, see http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html#maillist list info: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave