RE: Idle session logout

DKitts wrote:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Smith [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:12 AM
To: Mark
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Idle session logout

Mark wrote:
> 
> Will that work for users that do not use sh/bash? It is also possible for
> the user to set (or unset) this value to something else.
> 
> namaste,
> Mark
> 
> 

That may be true on some systems I suppose, but on my Mandrake 10 box 
TMOUT is a readonly variable. If I try to 'export TMOUT=12345' it fails 
with:

bash: TMOUT: readonly variable

Regards,
Andy