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From: wargaski@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Robert E. Wargaski Jr.)
Subject: Re: Is there a way to logout an inactive user after nn minutes?
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mjrx@ellis.uchicago.edu (Marty Ryan) writes:
|> 
|> In the ksh, there is an environment variable, TMOUT, which specifies the
|> number of minutes the shell will wait inactive before exiting. If you
|> were to set this in /etc/profile, all ksh users would be handled. I don't
|> know if the csh has a similar construct.

It does.  Setting autologout variable will cause the shell to log
itself out after a certain period of idle time.  For example,

		set autologout=30

will log you out after thirty minutes of idle time.

Rob

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Rob Wargaski
r-wargaski@nwu.edu			Colby is good.
ACNS DSS, Northwestern University