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- From: hedrick@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: tlQ: why does Linux 0.96c auto-logout during long make?
- Message-ID: <Jul.29.02.48.31.1992.24692@dartagnan.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 06:48:32 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.051216.23438@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- laakkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Laakkonen) writes:
-
- >hi. i have some stuff that takes about 8 hours to compile.
- >i typed "make -k all >& mall &" at 11.30pm and when i
- >came back to my linux box at 7.30am, the OS had done an auto-logout
- >for the user (root) who had originated that make, but the machine was
- >still churning away at the make.
- >if i had wanted to switch the machine off for some reason,
- >i don't know how i could have killed the process to enable it.
- >is this auto-logout behaviour normal from Linux (or unices in general)?
- >what is the cure?
-
- Your process ended up in the background, i.e. not attached to a tty.
- You can kill it using the command "kill NN" where NN is the process
- number. Use "ps" to find the process number. You can kill any
- process you own, and of course root can kill anybody's.
-
- Autologout sounds like tcsh. At least on the versions we use on the
- Sun (which have a different lineage) you do "unset autologout" in
- .cshrc.
-