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From: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: .suffile/.logout in ksh  (affects TIMEOUT?)
Message-ID: <1110@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 31 May 89 18:10:33 GMT
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Organization: College of Engg., Univ. of Cincinnati
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In article <984@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> tel@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.e.lowe) writes:

>KSH Has a timeout feature that will log you out after so many seconds
>of idle time if your TIMEOUT (or TMOUT, i forget) is set.  I've been
>told that doing this trap will prevent this timeout from working.
>Is this true?  Why?  Bug or Feature?  Is it avoidable?

No, that is not true; the shell exits after TMOUT seconds of idle time
(+60 sec grace), and the trap is taken correctly when it exits.

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Govind N. Kamat				College of Engineering
kamat@uceng.UC.EDU			University of Cincinnati
					Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA