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From: vax@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu (Vax)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Shells exiting at noon GMT [NetBSD-0.9]
Date: 30 May 1994 10:53:15 -0500
Organization: The University of Texas - Austin
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I'm having problems with my NetBSD-0.9 system:

At 5am and 5pm Central Standard (where we observe DST) I am getting logged out
automagically.  If I am at the shell, or if I have exec'ed screen, it
will just print the login prompt again.
If I am in X, it will completely freeze any input.
I am willing to bet that this madness is related to noon and midnight GMT,
but I don't know why it is occuring.  I have looked through all the crontabs,
and nothing runs then.  It has been consistent over the last few weeks.

Why, and how to fix?
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