How do I use ksh TMOUT on 5.2

William E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com
Sat Jun 11 00:40:42 AEST 1988


In article <130 at wash08.UUCP> txr98 at 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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