Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: need auto-logout program and info about tcsh Keywords: Software Message-ID: <3702@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 6 Jun 89 17:01:20 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 45 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 17, message 3 of 14 In article <3436@kalliope.rice.edu> umb!umb!gplan@husc6.harvard.edu (George A. Planansky) writes: > >We would like to have an auto-logout feature, whereby idle connections >are logged off, for our OS4 and our 4.2 systems. How is this done? An auto-logout feature is included in both the bash and tcsh shells. One can "setenv auto-logout 60" in the tcsh and you will be logged out after 60 minutes of idle time. > >We would also like some decent command line editing ... right now it's >the top "trivial but essential" item on our users' wish list (but wait >until they see the newly implemented connect time charges ...). I don't know what you consider "decent" commend line editing, but both bash and tcsh are loaded with functionality in editing command lines and history lists. > >Is the "tcsh" a solution, will it work with OS 4 and with 4.2, and, if >so, how do I "get" it? Both tcsh and bash are solutions (bash if users want a normal bourne shell function, and tcsh for the sane people who use csh :-). I swear by tcsh and would highly reccommend it. It is the FIRST thing i port to any new machine that i can get my hands on. One try and you will NEVER go back to the csh. tcsh is availible on tut.cis.ohio-state.edu the last time i checked (try pub/tcsh) with a shar file for various machines (i.e. sun3-os4, etc). > >George Planansky, Atmosphere Environment Research, Cambridge Mass. >617 641-3128 >email (via csnet): gplan@ra.umb.edu jim ------------------------------< Jim McCoy >------------------------------------ mccoy@acns.nwu.edu | "...far too many notes for my taste" #include | -Phantom of the Opera