# Idling?

Don Schwarz (don@darkowl.tezcat.com)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:44:23 PST

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    On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, Rich Connamacher wrote:

    > On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, James Renken wrote:
    >
    > > Is there any way to automatically kick off people who have been idle for more
    > > than an hour?
    >
    > The basic method to do that is to run a task inbedded in a while (1)
    > loop, to continuously scan the connected_players() (every 5 minutes would
    > be good)  for people whose idle time is greater than 3600 seconds.  I'll
    > leave the actual programming to you.. it's a fairly simple verb to write.
    >
    You might also want to concider using $wiz_utils:boot_idlers if you're
    using the LambdaCore, I haven't really looked at it in a while but I
    think it only boots people if there are over a certain number logged on
    or if the lag is high.

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