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From: whm@arizona.edu (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Periodic X (xterm?) deaths
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 19:51:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug  5 19:51:45 1987
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In response to my earlier query, someone had mentioned that maybe I was getting
auto-logged out, but I checked our VAX shell and there's no autologout in it.
jkh@violet.berkeley.edu suggested this in response to my second query and this
time I thought to check my Sun xterm shell and sure enough, there was an
autologout=60 in there.  Setting autologout=1 would make things disappear just
like usual, so silly me, autologout looks like the culprit.

It appears if you've got a program running in the foreground, you aren't
auto-loggedout.  Thus,

	rsh vax xterm ...

sticks around all day, but if you
	
	rsh -n vax xterm ... &

the autologout gets you.