find-idle-root-shells.8

.TH FIND-IDLE-ROOT-SHELLS 8 "January 24, 2010"
.SH NAME
.B find-idle-root-shells
\- detect unused root shells
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B find-idle-root-shells
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B find-idle-root-shells
is a helper script to detect unused root shells. It was created in the need
of a protection against bad admin habits, as some left their precious root
shells open for the public. This utility prints idle root shells on the
standard output, which triggers a mail when run from Cron.
.SH OPTIONS
There are no options. The idle time logic is hardcoded in the script. Changes
would be overridden on update.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-cron\-mode
Throttle warning messages, by remembering the last run of find-idle-root-shells
in the file "/var/run/find-idle-root-shells.last-run". The first warning is
issued after 15 minutes of idle time and the next after 30 minutes. Subsequent
warnings are issued every hour.
.SH AUTHOR
.B find-idle-root-shells
was written by Fabian Knittel and put under the GPL. This manual page was
written by Philipp Kern and is put under the same licence.