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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!melba.bby.com.au!gnb From: gnb@bby.com.au (Gregory Bond) Subject: Re: How do I disable the idle logouts? In-Reply-To: khera@kciLink.com's message of 06 Mar 1995 18:39:49 GMT Message-ID: <GNB.95Mar8095024@leo.bby.com.au> Sender: usenet@bby.com.au (news READER id) Nntp-Posting-Host: leo Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young Ltd., Melbourne, Australia References: <GNB.95Mar6103019@leo.bby.com.au> <KHERA.95Mar6133949@kci.kciLink.com> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 22:50:24 GMT Lines: 21 In article <KHERA.95Mar6133949@kci.kciLink.com> khera@kciLink.com (Vivek Khera) writes: >>>>> "GB" == Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> writes: GB> I use rlogin into our BSDI-1.1 box from my xterm. Unlike all our GB> other machines, the BSDI box has an idle logout implemented, so my GB> window keeps going away. This is bloody annoying. What shell do you use on your BSDI box? Some shells have the idle timeout in them. I know tcsh does. Bash probably does, too. I use bash. A grep for "idle" or "timeout" in the whole manual tree turns up nothing.... Greg. -- Gregory Bond <gnb@bby.com.au> Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia Atilla The Hun's Maxim: If you're going to rape, pillage and burn, be sure to do things in that order. -- P. J. Plauger, Programming On Purpose, p147