Re: exit application script

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"Penny" <Penny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an application that has a limited amount of licenses. I'm told
that
the amount of licenses we've got for this application is sufficient, but
there are users who stay logged into the application all day and not even
using it.

Anyways the application doesn't natively have a mechinism for exiting the
user out of the application if it's been idle for a set amount of time.

Is there a way to write a script that exits the application if the user
hasn't used it for 25 minutes? It sounds reasonable enough.

How would you determine that it has been idle for some period?
Perhaps constantly monitoring the CPU usage of the process?

Do you have access to the application's source code?
Have you tried contacting the vendor for a solution?

An alternative might be to have a script ask the user periodically
"Are you using the application?" and if they either respond "No"
or don't respond with in a short time then you exit the application.
As a user I wouldn't like the constant interruption but it's one way.


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