Re: time out

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 13:37:17 +0000, michael
<linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:59:33 +0000, michael
> > <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>michael wrote:
> >>
> >>>I can't see any discussion on this list of the merits (or otherwise!) of
> >>>timeoutd or autolog (or better equivalent)... thoughts?
> >>>Michael running on
> >>> 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
> >>
> >>Actually autolog doesn't do what it claims. I logged in to a console
> >>(alt-F2) and left it overnight, doing nothing, and never got logged out...
> >>
> >
> >
> > Do you want your user to automatically logout if idle after a certain
> > amount of time?
> 
> yes
> 

If you use bash or zsh, set or export the TMOUT env variable to a non
zero value, this should be the number of seconds of max idle time...


Andrea