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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4492- June 29, 2025
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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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