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From: erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Hpterm window terminating
Keywords: Solution found; csh autologout
Message-ID: <775@pai.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 89 14:48:07 GMT
Organization: Prime Automation, Inc., Burnsville, MN
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A colleague had a problem with HPterm windows disappearing
under HP-UX's X11R2 implementation.  After about an hour, the window
would simply disappear.

Ha, at least three people suggested I check if csh is the shell in use.
(It was. I didn't think of that originally.)  A common suggestions was:

> This may not be the solution, but I'll mention it anyway: is the window
> running csh?  If so, what is the autologout timer set for?  The default
> is 1 hour.  Disabling it is very easy: just set autologout to 0.

So, many thanks to:

Jeff Okamoto
HP Corporate Computing & Services

Fletcher E. Kittredge  fkittred@bbn.com
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA

Andrew Mackenzie	andrew@hpqtdla.HP.COM 
HP, Queensferry Telecomms (UK)

-and everyone else who answered after I wrote this-


(I'm embarrassed I didn't check this first. Sorry.)
-Eric




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