expire inative users

[mauritz@…]

Hello guys,

What do you think about expire users who not use the service for a long time? exemple: 100 days

[]'s Mauritz

[timing]

Define 'users who do not use the service for a long time' I mean, if I recieve messages, but do not reply to them, will I be disconnected? And if I was a user on this network, I would create an automated help message in &bitlbee everyday.

[wilmer]

Timing, I think this is about clearing account files of users that didn't log in for a longer time. Which can be done with a nice find command line. See "man find" for more information, it's how I do it on the public servers from time to time.

Something like this, for example:

$ find . -mtime +90 | xargs rm

[admin]

It's not a bug. :-)

[mauritz@…]

This is a user who use my server every day: -rw------- 1 root wheel 298 Jul 20 2005 KurtKraut.accounts -rw------- 1 root wheel 1211 Jul 20 2005 KurtKraut.nicks

So, these files only change date when he change or set accounts.. Not register the last login.

[timing]

okay, so maybe bitlbee needs to touch a file now and then, just for fun

[wilmer]

Hmm, then he disabled auto-save. I wonder why. With BitlBee <0.8 (or something similar, don't know when the account command appeared exactly) that made sense, but I don't see why people would want that these days.

Anyway, checking atime is another possibility, but .accounts files don't have very accurate atimes because BitlBee touches them too when people *try* to log in (but use the wrong password), which does seem to happen on public servers sometimes. So then after you'd have to clean up .accounts files when the .nicks file disappears.

Anyway, this is a little Unix shell scripting exercise, nothing for BitlBee. Have fun. ;-)

(Invalid might maybe not be a very suitable "resolution", maybe I should add a "notabug" resolution to the list of possibilities...)