Title: Logging off idle terminals (Autolog)

Autolog is an enhanced version of idleout, this utility gives the administrator a great deal of control over who is logged out and when. It is ideal for those sites where users keep their screens logged in overnight and the backup fails. Also where users start up virtual screens and then forget about them.!!

If autolog is not already on your machine please contact support and they will send you a copy. Autolog has not been written by us and while we can help you setup and configure it we cannot guarantee it will meet your needs or will work at all on your system.

Autolog consists of two parts, the actual program (/usr/local/bin/autolog) and the configuration file.

However, there are two versions of autolog out there, the older version, the confuguration file is /etc/autolog.conf and the newer version, the config file is /usr/local/etc/autolog.conf.

How do I tell which version I have?

The simplist way is to check the size of the program, at the # prompt type l /usr/local/bin/autolog

If you get:

• not found - the software is not installed!!

• -rwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 122436 Jun 5 1995 /usr/local/bin/autolog
  This is the older version and you should refer to the guide Setting up original version.

• -rwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 33528 Oct 8 2000 /usr/local/bin/autolog
  This is the new version and you should refer to the guide Setting up new version of autolog.