On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 09:26:32AM +0200, Goetz Waschk wrote: > Why don't you just ignore it like everyone else :-) > That var is a logout timer. After that many seconds of inactivity your > bash will terminate. As a security measure this var is read only. If > you start a second login shell in a terminal (the first one is your X > session AFAIK), it tries to set this var but without success. You > could try to add a check to that script to check for the value of > TMOUT before trying to set it.
This is a bug and should be fixed. If you don't have something constructive to add don't post. There's no reason he should have to "ignore it like everyone else." It should have been fixed a long time ago in cooker. Hell 8.2 has an updated setup package to fix it and it's included in 8.2's errata. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
