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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "Connection closed due to inactivity" ARGH!
Date: 7 May 1996 20:45:44 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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rob@voyager.ultradata.com (Robert Glover) wrote:

> How the heck do I turn off the damn autologoff thing?  Several people 
> have told me that it has to do with the shell (e.g. bash, tcsh),

Yep, it's a tcsh'ism (and perhaps bash'ism, but i don't know this).

You generally turn off this kind of things by reading the manual page,
and taking the appropriate actions. :)  (Finding about which variable
to modify is left as an exercise for the user, well, i don't even know
which shell you're using...)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)