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NAMEdoinkd - Idle terminal and multiple login monitor daemon.SYNOPSISdoinkd [-f config_file ]DESCRIPTIONdoinkd 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 terminal must be unused to be considered “idle”, and which users, groups, terminals, 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 obvious reasons. Idled was written from a program called Untamo, which gets its name from the Finnish god of sleep and dreams. FILES
AVAILABILITYThe newest version of doinkd is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/idledAll comments and suggestions for doinkd would be greatly appreciated and should be sent to lottc at SpinnakerResorts dot com DIAGNOSTICSVarious “couldn't open ...” error messages. Since doinkd dissacociates itself from the invoking terminal, most of the errors get put in the log file.SEE ALSOdoinkd.cf(5), utmp(5)BUGSIf a user logs off and then on again fast enough and manages to get a different tty, he may be warned about a multiple login.It will not warn the person on console about being logged off if that person 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.
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