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Aucbvax.1574 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!clyde@UTEXAS-11 Tue Jun 9 13:04:37 1981 Job activity monitoring I agree with Lauren's comment on this matter. There is one thing that we have done that minimizes the inactivity problem somewhat and that is to install an input wait timeout in the shell. This is settable (and can be disabled) by the user, but very few people change theirs. Our shell gives a one minute warning, then if no input has been given it, exits. This of course only works for people at shell level, but most piddling seems to be at that level.

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