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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do I use ksh TMOUT on 5.2
Keywords: ksh timeout
Message-ID: <11205@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 10 Jun 88 14:40:42 GMT
References: <130@wash08.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <130@wash08.UUCP> txr98@wash08.UUCP (Timothy Reed) writes:
| hopefully easy question: how  do I access the  TMOUT variable to zap  an
| idle user.  Ideally I'd  like to trap it in  a user's login shell.   MKS

TMOUT is in seconds. For ten minutes set it to 600. You might set it in
/etc/rc and then make it readonly. I do something similar for my guest
users.

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