============================================== SECURITY --- Idle Process Killer V2.0 ============================================== by G. Beau Williamson Rockwell International 1200 N. Alma Rd. Richardson, TX. 75081 (214) 996-5547 Updated by: George Flint 23-June-1988 ABSTRACT -------- The Security program is an idle terminal watch program that monitors the system for terminals that have been left idle and automatically logs them off if it has been idle a specified period of time. A terminal (process) is considered idle by Security if it has not generated a minimum amount of CPU time or a minimum number of Buffered IO's during a set time period. NOTE The name "SECURITY" was chosen as it had a nice official ring to it when the user was notified with the message, "You have been logged out by SECURITY". Security also has a "Critical Image" feature that permits interactive processes that are executing certain critical images to become immune from Security's auto-logout functions. An example of a typical critical image is the "RTPAD" image which is executed when a "SET HOST" command is issued. By designating "RTPAD" as a critical image, Security will not logoff a local process that appears to be idle that is in fact executing a compute-bound job on the remote host. The following is a summary of the basic features of Security V2.0. 1. Idle terminals are logged out when idle period is exceeded. 2. Idle terminals may, optionally be warned of pending logout. 3. Security Alarms are optionally sent to OPCOM when a terminal is logged out. 4. Subprocess activity is included in the idle computations. 5. Processes running "Critical Images" are immune. Page 2 6. The list of "Critical Images" may be modified. 7. A Log file of all Security activity is produced. 8. All Operational Parameters may be set via system logicals.