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- From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:05:34 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: windows unexpectedly dying - why and how to fix it ? (flame)
- Message-ID: <28510302@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
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- References: <2391@ulysse.enst.fr>
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- philipp@ulysse.enst.fr (Philippe-Andre Prindeville) writes:
-
- >Subject: Re: windows unexpectedly dying - why and how to fix it ? (flame)
- =====
-
- Perhaps a little more RTFM and a little less flaming is in order? :
-
- >>Sounds like the old csh autologout thing. unset autologout
- >>or autologout=0 is what you want to do.
- >
- >Which brings us to the question: why does there login set autologout
- >by default? Why don't they just put a line like "set autologout=60"
- >into /etc/csh.login where it is obvious and can safely be commented
- >out (like those $%&%^ copyright notices).
-
- "Their login" (whatever that means) does not set (the csh(1))
- autologout (to 60) by default, but csh does. This is documented on the
- csh(1) manual pages. Whether this is (de-facto) "standard" behaviour, I
- do not know.
-
- >out (like those $%&%^ copyright notices).
-
- From csh.login and profile :
-
- ># This is to meet legal requirements...
-
- Please flame the companies and institutions which require us to do
- this, instead of flaming us for doing it.
-
- Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
-