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From: mi@aldan.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Auto logout disable?
Date: 20 Dec 1995 04:15:31 GMT
Organization: Boston University
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To: The BOSS! <root@news.bluemoon.net>

In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219213127.4100B-100000@news.bluemoon.net>,
	The BOSS! <root@news.bluemoon.net> writes:
>
>The shell is a stock tcsh and I see nothing in the .login file which 
>could cause this to happen. It's obnoxious as this machine is used for 
>nothing but mail.
>

	unset autologout
Will do the trick. Or set it to something else... It's tcsh's
security (or safety feature). RT man page for tcsh for more.
	-mi