I don't know if this has already been posted (if it has, I haven't seen anything about it and it hasn't been fixed as of yesterday's cooker).
When starting an xterm (in my case, I prefer an Eterm) I've been getting this error: TMOUT: readonly variable After doing some detective work, $HOME/.bashrc sources /etc/bashrc that has an if statement that sources /etc/profile.d/msec.sh which, in turn, sources /etc/sysconfig/msec which, finally, contains four ENV variables: UMASK_ROOT=022 SECURE_LEVEL=2 UMASK_USER=022 TMOUT=0 Ah ha! Once that last TMOUT entry is commented out, the error message goes away! If TMOUT is a readonly variable as the error message says, should this line be there? Thanks, -Charlie -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE In America today ... we have Woody Allen, whose humor has become so sophisticated that nobody gets it any more except Mia Farrow. All those who think Mia Farrow should go back to making movies where the devil gets her pregnant and Woody Allen should go back to dressing up as a human sperm, please raise your hands. Thank you. -- Dave Barry, "Why Humor is Funny"