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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Auto logout disable?
References: <4b6361$5f7@news.bluemoon.net> <199512192338.AA06431@Sysiphos> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219213127.4100B-100000@news.bluemoon.net>
Organization: Mordor International
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 05:20:31 GMT
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The BOSS! (root@news.bluemoon.net) wrote:
: On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Stefan Esser wrote:

: > In article <4b6361$5f7@news.bluemoon.net>, root@news.bluemoon.net (The BOSS!) writes:
: > |> I was wonderring if anyone knows an easy way to make FreeBSD *NOT* logout 
: > |> a user for inactivity. I want to keep a "log user" logged into this 
: > |> machine to receive messages from syslog, but I haven't found anyplace to 
: > |> disable the auto-logout which always occurs. Anyone know where to look or 
: > |> how to keep that from happening?
: > 
: > Auto logout ??? 
: > Well, you are SURE there is such a thing in FreeBSD ? :-)
: > 
: > My best bet would be to look into the .login file of that 
: > log "user", and find the line that enables the auto-logout
: > feature of his particular shell ...

: 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.

Don't forget to also check:

/etc/csh.cshrc
/etc/csh.login
~/.cshrc

Regards,

Chris

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