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place in /etc/cron.hourly and it will kill any idle vnc sessions
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#!/bin/bash | |
# http://serverfault.com/a/767361/33170 | |
displays=`ps aux | grep Xvnc | grep -v 'grep\|sed' | sed -r 's|.*(Xvnc :[0-9]*).*|\1|' | cut -d' ' -f 2` | |
limit=30 | |
date | |
echo "Checking for inactive sessions!" | |
while read -r d; do | |
export DISPLAY=$d | |
idle=`xprintidle` | |
idleMins=$(($limit/1000/60)) | |
if [[ $idleMins -gt $limit ]]; then | |
# http://superuser.com/questions/909400/killing-vnc-process-manually | |
echo "WARN Killing display $d because it is logged in for longer than ${limit}min (${idleMins}m)" | |
PID=$(pgrep -f "vnc $d") | |
echo "Killing $d ($PID)" | |
kill -HUP $PID | |
# http://linuxtoolkit.blogspot.com/2013/03/xrdpmmprocessloginresponse-login-failed.html | |
FNAME=$(echo $d | sed -e 's/:/X/g') | |
FILENAME="/tmp/.X11-unix/$FNAME" | |
echo "Removing session for $d ($FILENAME)" | |
rm -f $FILENAME | |
else | |
echo "INFO Display $d is still ok (${idleMins}m)" | |
fi | |
done <<< "$displays" |
Checkout my own fork of this code with some fix and updates:
https://gist.github.com/maxwelleite/b352dd681b74e7cf09b236e7d40c1794
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Require to install xprintidle package (
sudo apt-get install xprintidle
).But xprintidle is incompatible with tightvnc sessions. Get the error message: "screen saver extension not supported".
So only works for vnc server (vnc4server) ;-(
Need some code enhance. But works! 👍