[5897] in SIPB bug reports
Re: You killed my program!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yoav Yerushalmi)
Sat Mar 30 03:00:56 1996
To: tomliang@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Mar 1996 02:53:46 EST."
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Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 03:00:40 EST
From: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Hello,
While I am sorry that your work was disrupted, I should point
out that you are unfairly accusing SIPB of following Athena policy.
Leaving yourself logged into a publid workstation for more than 20 minutes
will result in somebody logging you out of it sooner or later.
However, it should not have logged you out automatically, only put up a button
which may be clicked by anybody to log you out. In order to automatically
log you out, you need to go out of your way to configure it to do this.
If you did indeed discover you had been logged out, this was because another
user felt the need to use the machine you were logged into. Something which
is completely acceptable by athena rules of use.
Now. Finally, if you intend on doing something like this in the future, and
want your processes not to be killed on you machine, may I suggest a popular
program, named 'screen', which will allow you to log out from the machine
you were on, and then later telnet in from another machine and resume
your session.
Please in the future send a more polite letter, or at least try and understand
the issues before you unfairly accuse us.
thanks
yoav
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