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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news.net99.net!news.bluemoon.net!news.bluemoon.net!root From: The BOSS! <root@news.bluemoon.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Auto logout disable? Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 21:32:36 +0000 Organization: The Blue Moon Online System Lines: 23 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951219213127.4100B-100000@news.bluemoon.net> References: <4b6361$5f7@news.bluemoon.net> <199512192338.AA06431@Sysiphos> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.bluemoon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <199512192338.AA06431@Sysiphos> 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. J. Henry Priebe Jr., root@net.bluemoon.net, sysop@bbs.bluemoon.net, newsmaster@news.bluemoon.net and the wearer of all hats for all occasions!