One way is to save the time of last access every time a user requests a
page, then poll to find users for whom now() - last_access_time >
TIMEOUT.

- Lucas

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Christian Calloway wrote:

> Damn stateless nature of HTTP, hey everyone, can someone point me or give me
> an idea on how I would automatically log out (destroy user sessions and make
> note of it in the database) on some type of schedule. I have designed a
> security system that depends upon people logging out to determine the amount
> of time they have accumalated on their accounts. Of course people do not
> always (never) do this, so I need a way to do it for them. We are running
> redhat linux, I am sure there is a way to say run a certain script at a
> certain time blah blah etc etc. But I am only a programmer, and am
> absolutely clueless on the finer points of nix. I can write a script in
> perl, php, java, u name it, but how do I have it run on a set schedule?
> Thanks
>
> Christian
>
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