[PLUG] Debian auto logout?

Jeff Blain jelque at feather.net
Sat Sep 7 02:08:20 UTC 2002


On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 04:05:11PM -0700, Richard Steffens wrote:
> Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> 
> > What shell do you use?
> 
> I've been logged in using X, and Gnome. Otherwise, bash, I assume. I
> don't recall specifying during installation, but I think I remember
> seeing bash somewhere in the past week or so. 
> 
> > I know the "csh/tcsh" shells have an "autologout"
> > shell variable that specifies the amount of inactivity in minutes that
> > must occur before a user is automatically logged out. I'm not sure if
> > bash has this feature or not.
> 
> Avatar:~# echo $autologout 
> 
> returns a blank line. I'm guessing that means there isn't an environment
> variable, autologout.
> 

Do you have a screen saver running at all? I recently had a couple of X
reboots when my screen saver crashed for some reason. This may be way
off, but it's a shot.

Jeff





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