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From: khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: How do I disable the idle logouts?
Date: 06 Mar 1995 18:39:49 GMT
Organization: Khera Communications, Inc., Rockville, MD
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To: gnb@bby.com.au (Gregory Bond)
In-reply-to: gnb@bby.com.au's message of Sun, 5 Mar 1995 23:30:19 GMT

>>>>> "GB" == Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> writes:

GB> I use rlogin into our BSDI-1.1 box from my xterm.  Unlike all our
GB> other machines, the BSDI box has an idle logout implemented, so my
GB> window keeps going away.  This is bloody annoying.

What shell do you use on your BSDI box?  Some shells have the idle
timeout in them.  I know tcsh does.  Bash probably does, too.

Check the docs on the shell with which you login to the machine.
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