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From: Daniel Baker <dbaker@Concorde-Mail.NeoSoft.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Idle time...
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 16:00:15 -0500
Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 968 5800
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On 25 May 1995, Guy Dawson wrote:
> In article <3q1j1a$6pv@peippo.cs.tut.fi>, k125374@korppi.cs.tut.fi (Kortelainen Mika) writes:
>
> |> I don't know how but at least my NetBSD (Amiga version) does logout me if
> |> I'm idle too many minutes (or about an hour I guess). I was logged as
> |> root then, but probably it does the same for other users, too.
> |>
> |> I don't know is this the default behaviour in any *BSD or just in NetBSD...
>
> Is that when you are at the shell prompt? If so, it's the shell that
> is doing the inactivity timer and not BSD. That being the case there
> is nothing to logout of you spent an hour inactive in, say vi.
Yah, it has nuttin to do with the O/S, it's the shell..
> Guy
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