Hi-
I'm just finishing a Kiosk station using OS X and IE. anyone can come up to this computer and use IE for whatever. I've got a PERL script run through cron that watches the IE History file to determine when IE was last used, and if it's been longer than 3 minutes, kill IE and reset the preferences. The computer is locked down tight and works great!
However- users have requested access to terminal from this station to telnet out and check their email that way. I don't want to give access to terminal unless I can kill the app if it's been idle (in case someone leaves the computer while logged in).
the question is - how do I tell if Terminal is idle? with IE I have a history file I can check the date on. Any suggestions for Terminal? This scrollback buffer- does it cache to a file somewhere? or to memory?
thanks
-todd-
I'm just finishing a Kiosk station using OS X and IE. anyone can come up to this computer and use IE for whatever. I've got a PERL script run through cron that watches the IE History file to determine when IE was last used, and if it's been longer than 3 minutes, kill IE and reset the preferences. The computer is locked down tight and works great!
However- users have requested access to terminal from this station to telnet out and check their email that way. I don't want to give access to terminal unless I can kill the app if it's been idle (in case someone leaves the computer while logged in).
the question is - how do I tell if Terminal is idle? with IE I have a history file I can check the date on. Any suggestions for Terminal? This scrollback buffer- does it cache to a file somewhere? or to memory?
thanks
-todd-
