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From: brian@cosumn.edu (Brian Volkoff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Watchdog program
Summary: timing out
Message-ID: <107@cosumn.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 18:16:07 GMT
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Organization: CRC, Sacramento, CA
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In article <1755@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>, mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
> times for the real device,  /dev/ttyxx,  are not updated.  I have
> been stung by this on our news machine.  Chronically short of space,
> yet because of the timeout limit,  you get knocked off doing large
> transfers.

Ditto.  I found the easiest solution to the above problem was to put a
short shell program in the background to "touch" my /dev/tty entry every
five minutes.