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From: mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu (Matthew N. Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: How do I disable the idle logouts?
Date: 8 Mar 1995 05:18:49 -0600
Organization: Louisiana State University
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Gregory Bond (gnb@bby.com.au) wrote:
:   >>>>> "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.
: I use bash.  A grep for "idle" or "timeout" in the whole manual tree
: turns up nothing....

I know tcsh and most versions of csh have a variable called
"autologout" that controls idle logouts.  I suppose you can unset this
to inhibit the behavior, but I usually set it to 0...  I am not sure 
what you do for bash.

Have a good one.


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Matthew N. Dodd                        Department of Computer Science
mdodd@tiger.lsu.edu                        Louisiana State University