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Re: telnet time-out

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Jinks)
Fri Nov 6 17:16:08 1998

Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 22:05:43 +0000
From: Michael Jinks <michael@twopoint.com>
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John H Darrah wrote:
> 
> >From the bash man page:
> 
>        TMOUT  If  set  to a value greater than zero, the value is
>               interpreted as the number of seconds to  wait  for
>               input  after issuing the primary prompt.  Bash ter-
>               minates after waiting for that number of seconds if
>               input does not arrive.


I have this problem on a RH5.1 box where 'echo $TMOUT' always returns
0.  It doesn't happen on any of the other machines that I use (all
RH5.x), so I know I must have tracked it down sometime before, but I
sure can't find it now.


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