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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
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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!