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DOINKD(8) System Manager's Manual DOINKD(8) NAME doinkd - Idle terminal and multiple login monitor daemon. SYNOPSIS doinkd [-f config_file ] DESCRIPTION doinkd wakes up at regular intervals and scans the system's utmp file to see which users are currently logged in, how long they have been idle, whether they are logged in more than once, etc. doinkd then warns and logs out users based on a set of rules in its configuration file. doinkd is usually started from '/etc/init.d'. doinkd uses a configuration file, doinkd.cf, to find out how long a termi- nal must be unused to be considered "idle", and which users, groups, termi- nals, or clusters of terminals are exempt from being logged out. The path of the configuration file, which is compiled in, can be overriden by using the flag -f followed by the name of the configuration file to use (and path, if necessary). doinkd was written from a program called Idled, which gets its name for ob- vious reasons. Idled was written from a program called Untamo, which gets its name from the Finnish god of sleep and dreams. FILES /usr/local/etc/doinkd/doinkd.cf Configuration file which specifies how often doinkd is to wake up, and exemptions to rules, etc. There is no need to restart doinkd to change the configuration. If changes are made to this file, doinkd will re-read the configuration rules. /var/log/doinkd.log Log of when doinkd is started, killed, who it logs off and why, and any errors it encounters. AVAILABILITY The newest version of doinkd is available from http://source- forge.net/projects/idled All comments and suggestions for doinkd would be greatly appreciated and should be sent to lottc at SpinnakerResorts dot com DIAGNOSTICS Various "couldn't open ..." error messages. Since doinkd dissacociates it- self from the invoking terminal, most of the errors get put in the log file. SEE ALSO doinkd.cf(5), utmp(5) BUGS If a user logs off and then on again fast enough and manages to get a dif- ferent tty, he may be warned about a multiple login. It will not warn the person on console about being logged off if that per- son is not in X-Windows, since things get really screwy then (due to some weirdness in the system blocking reading of the utmp file until a person hits <return> on the console's keyboard-- and that is one <return> for each utmp line!). If doinkd is started considerably after a user's session limit is up, it will warn that it is waiting "warn" time before killing the session, but will actually only wait 10 seconds (which is adjustable via a line in chk_session() in doinkd.c). I left this because it would be somewhat messy to fix it, when it will probably not have much effect anyway. May 30, 2006 DOINKD(8)
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