NAME
away - terminal locking program
SYNOPSIS
away [OPTIONS] message [...]
DESCRIPTION
away is a simple program that locks your terminal, checks for new mail in any given number of mailboxes, and lets other users know why you are inactive.
OPTIONS
- -c, --mail
-
Enable checking of mail.
- -C, --nomail
-
Disable checking of mail.
- -f, --rcfile=FILE
-
Specify an alternative configuration file instead of the default ~/.awayrc file.
- -F, --norcfile
-
Ignore user configuration file.
- -h, --help
-
Display help.
- -m, --message
-
Execute as the remainder of the command line, effectively stripping off the executable name and additional switches.
- -p, --persist
-
Continue checking for new mail as long as there is at least one mailbox that has not received new mail.
- -P, --nopersist
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Stop checking mail if any mailbox is found to have new mail.
- -t, --time=SECONDS
-
Set the number of second that away sleeps before performing its background tasks. Presently, the only background task that away will perform is the checking of mailboxes.
- -T, --notime
-
Ignore any options to set the time interval and use the default number of seconds.
- -v, --version
-
Display version information.
FILES
~/.awayrc
Per user configuration file. See awayrc(5) for further details.
/etc/pam.d/away
The Linux-PAM configuration file.
BUGS
Bug reports should be sent to the away mailing list <[email protected]>.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
Cameron Moore <[email protected]>, and others.