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To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@blaise.ibp.fr>
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On Wed, 19 Jul 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> > Lemmie guess - tcsh is your shell? Try 'set auto-logout=0'. If you want it 
> > for all your users, put it in the share/skel/dot.login file so all the 
> > new users you create will have that setting.
> 
> Two ways to stop it :
> 1. the fastest and less limiting one : unset autologout in .tcshrc.
> 2. recompile without the corresponding #define (check config_f.h).

Less limiting, but also less illuminating for your users. set 
autologout=0 makes it pretty clear that it can be set to another time if 
they so desire. If they just delete the unset, they then have the default 
autologout time.

Guess it depends on if you think it's a useful feature or not....