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From: txr98@wash08.UUCP (Timothy Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: How do I use ksh TMOUT on 5.2
Keywords: ksh timeout
Message-ID: <130@wash08.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 88 22:29:17 GMT
Reply-To: txr98@wash08.UUCP (Timothy Reed)
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: American Chemical Society, Washington, DC
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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
doc indicates  that TMOUT's  sends  a SIGALRM,  but  ksh does  not  seem
recognize such a signal on the unix 5.2  system I am running ksh on.   I
manually set TMOUT to '1', and got a 'shell timeout in 60 seconds'  with
every tap of the return key!
Thanks in advance...
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