Very Computer

Hello again: Back in college years ago I recall I could set a variable
in my .profile, so that if I leave a shell unattended for a specified
time, the shell would automatically log me out. Unfortunately I am not
sure if it was called LOGOUT or LOGOUT_TIME or TIME_OUT or something
else. BTW, I think I was using SVR4 in a Sparc II back then. Is there a
FreeBSD equivalent of this function?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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galactic war

It isn't really FreeBSD specific, but rather, shell specific.  For
tcsh, you need to set the autologout shell variable, e.g., set
autologout 300.  Don't know if bash or sh has such a feature, but I
know tcsh does.  You'll have to read the tcsh man page for more
details.

- Donn

OK, for bash you have to set the TMOUT environment variable, e.g.,

export TMOUT=300

to auto-logout after 300 seconds.  The tcsh version is a shell
variable called autologout (not an environment variable).

- Donn

Great, thanks a lot, Donn.

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galactic war

OK, but there should be a more "strict" method of doing so.  It seems that
it should be one of the entries in login.conf, but I couldn't make it work,
and heard somewhere that it does not (at least in FreeBSD 3.4).  I don't
have access to FreeBSD 4.0 box right now, so I can't check whether it's true
right now.  Anyway, how come that there were no indication whatsoever (in
man page or directly in login.conf) that those neat features didn't work?