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In check_idle there is an sprintf call which copies an error message to
the global variable errmsg, after which, absolutely nothing was done
with the variable. From a piece of commented out code underneath, one
can tell that this line used to have a purpose, as it was used in a
bailout call, where it gets printed to the syslog. This call is deleted
and now the errmsg string is simply written to and then never used.

Now the line has been modified so the error message gets written to the
syslog, removing the need for the errmsg variable.
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README 

TIMEOUTD 1.5 by Shane Alderton

Timeoutd is a programme which allows you to control the following
characteristics on a user by user and/or group by group basis for
each tty on your system:

- maximum idle time
- maximum time per session
- maximum time per day
- times when people can/can't login on specific ttys

To build timeoutd, you should make any changes to the makefile for
your preferred compilation options, then simply:

make

The next step is to install a timeouts file in /etc specifying
the parameters for each line/user/group combination.  You can use
the sample file provided in the distribution as a starting point
after reading the timeoutd.8 and timeouts.5 man pages.

Once you have installed the timeouts file in /etc, you can type:

make install

to install the timeoutd binaries and man pages.

Then it is just a matter of running /usr/sbin/timeoutd.  You may want
to add a line to your /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local (or whatever) to run
timeoutd at boot time.

If you wish, you can also modify your login programme to have timeoutd
run at login time to check whether each user is allowed to login or not.
Otherwise, users who are not allowed to login will be logged off within
1 minute of logging in.

Another (albeit less certain) way of doing this is to put the following
line in /etc/profile near the top of the file:

/usr/etc/timeoutd `whoami` `basename \`tty\`` || exit


Please send bugs, comments, suggestions to:
shanea@bigpond.net.au (Shane Alderton)