Craig Sanders wrote: > On 15 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: > > > Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes: > > > > > anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily > > > time limits on serial lines? > > > > I don't have this problem, and I haven't installed idled: > > > > Description: Idle Daemon. Removes idle users. > > Idled is a "daemon" that runs on a machine to keep an eye on current > > users. If users have been idle for too long, or have been logged on > > for too long, it will warn them and log them out appropriately. > > yeah, i know about idled. i even package a similar daemon for debian > (timeoutd). > > i don't have idled or timeoutd or anything similar installed on the machine > in question. that was the first thing i thought of. > > this idle timeout only seems to occur for logins on a serial line (both > terminal and ppp logins), never on console or a pty. > > thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't help. this problem seems > specific to slink...perhaps a new login binary does it. > FWIW - I have the same problem. No idled. No logoutd. No lines in /etc/porttime. Still get booted off the console after several hours. -Mitch
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