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From: dwhite@shadow.net (Donald Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Auto logout disable?
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 22:49:51 GMT
Organization: Tequila Research
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kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) wrote:

>In article <4b80dn$l93@louie.udel.edu>,
>Jerry Alexandratos <alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu> wrote:
>>This is a feature of tcsh.  The autologout variable defaults to 60
>>minutes if it is not set.  
>
>It's also a feature of something else----rlogind, I suspect.  I use
>tcsh, but I don't have autologout set.  In fact, I explicitly do
>``unset autologout'' in my .login.

Don't do it in your .login, do it in your .cshrc. Otherwise all subshells WILL
have the default 60 minutes. Perhaps that's your problem.

>Any hints?  I've never investigated it since it's a really minor
>inconvenience.

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