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UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4492- June 29, 2025
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 Unix Tip #4492- June 29, 2025
 
KILL IDLE USERS  
  
Here is a quick script to  
kill idle users at the 10  
hour mark.  
  
Cchange the 10 to the hour  
you would like to kill at  
and #run as cron every hour  
This is for HP UNIX, check  
the fields on the "who"  
command for your flavor  
  
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who -u | cut -c 1-10,39-50 | grep 10: > current  
for each IDLE_USR ( `cat current | awk '{print $3}'` )  
kill -9 $IDLE_USR  
end  
exit (0)  
  
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