Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:11:21 +0200 From: "Alexey Shuvaev" <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: csh history and pts Message-ID: <20080901101121.GC4083@wep400x.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> In-Reply-To: <871w04syfw.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <48BAD085.1090507@gmail.com> <20080831200950.GF99951@hoeg.nl> <871w04syfw.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 11:48:35PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Yes, a bit of background is probably going to be useful... > > tcsh enables autologout automatically to a default of 60 seconds in the > following cases: > > Set to `60' (automatic logout after 60 minutes, and no > locking) by default in login and superuser shells, but not if > the shell thinks it is running under a window system (i.e., > the DISPLAY environment variable is set), the tty is a > pseudo-tty (pty) or the shell was not so compiled (see the > version shell variable). > > The `contrib/tcsh/sh.c' code implements this near line 456: > [snip] > > I have an IRC log from scottl noting that he still got the default 60 > second autologout, but this was on 6.X IIRC: > > * scottl__ tries to remember how to turn off auto-logout > <motminh> scottl__: tcsh option - I guess tcsh can no longer determin > activity post TTY? > <keramida> scottl__: I remember Kris mentioning an mpsafetty & tcsh > issue. I haven't had the time to go back and check if the pty-detection > we fixed with kern.pts.enable=1 still works after mpsafetty > <motminh> scottl__: what does echo $autologout say? > <scottl__> [y1] ~> echo $autologout > <scottl__> 60 > <scottl__> on a 6.3 machine, I get > <scottl__> pooker] ~> echo $autologout > <scottl__> autologout: Undefined variable. > > I can't reproduce this with a current from Aug 29, but this snapshot has > been built with the experimental 'packet mode' patch, and a few other > local changes, so I will have to try with a clean /head/ snapshot. > FWIW: In xterm: ~> uname -a FreeBSD wep400x.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Aug 31 16:30:20 CEST 2008 root@wep400x.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 ~> echo $autologout autologout: Undefined variable. ~> su - Password: # echo $autologout 60 In the console (I think ttyv*) autologout is not defined for both normal user and root. Finally, ~> echo $version tcsh 6.15.00 (Astron) 2007-03-03 (unknown-unknown-FreeBSD) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,sm,rh,color,filec Back to original post, I confirm that [t]csh loses history after shutdown(8). My 0.02$, Alexey.
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