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From: Don Whiteside <freelist@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu>
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Subject: Re: Autologout.
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On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Sep 1995, Network Coordinator wrote:
> 
> > For some reason, several of my local consoles are auto logging out my 
> > accounts. It never used to do this, and doesn't do it on every terminal, 
> > but has just started in the last few days. Where is this configurable?
> 
> The tcsh shell has this feature, are you running tcsh?

If so, the simple thing to so is set autologout=0

(or whatever number of minutes you want the logout to be)