Watchdog program

[Brian Volkoff]

In article <1755 at ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>, mercer at ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
> times for the real device,  /dev/ttyxx,  are not updated.  I have
> been stung by this on our news machine.  Chronically short of space,
> yet because of the timeout limit,  you get knocked off doing large
> transfers.

Ditto.  I found the easiest solution to the above problem was to put a
short shell program in the background to "touch" my /dev/tty entry every
five minutes.