Re: TMOUT variable problem

Holger.VanKoll_at_SWISSCOM.COM
Date: 08/21/03

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    Date:         Thu, 21 Aug 2003 16:33:18 +0200
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    probably it has been set to readonly in /some/script/executed/earlier

    by the way the user can bypass this by executing

    /bin/ksh

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Stephen Spalding [mailto:ssaixadm@YAHOO.COM]
    Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:15 PM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: TMOUT variable problem

    I have the TMOUT variable set on my 5.1 systems, and
    for some reason it doesn't seem to be working on one
    of them. What the user sees when he/she logs in is:

    .profile[44]: TMOUT: This variable is read only

    The variable does not seem to take affect as the
    session does not time out after the specified time.

    Here is what the setting of the env var looks like:

    TMOUT=10800 # 10800 seconds = 3 hours
    export TMOUT
    readonly TMOUT # make the variable unmodifiable

    Does anyone know what the problem here is?

    Thanks!

    -Stephen Spalding

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