Re: [newbie] is it rebooting or what?

2002-12-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 18 Dec 2002 12:05 pm, Thought Progress wrote: How do I disable or control this feature. Someone mentioned. Anuerin Diaz mentioned leaving an application running (gaim seems to work), but there has to be a better way to keep the machine from logging you off (I would think) when you

RE: [newbie] is it rebooting or what?

2002-12-18 Thread Anuerin Diaz
it to 0 disables that feature. ciao! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Thought Progress Sent: 18. joulukuuta 2002 14:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] is it rebooting or what? How do I disable or control this feature. Someone

Re: [newbie] is it rebooting or what?

2002-12-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 8:17 am, Anuerin Diaz wrote: It's the timeout environment variable (TMOUT). After x number of seconds of inactivity the user is logged off automatically. It's a security feature. Is this set as part of a security level? I ask because I leave my mailbox collecting all

RE: [newbie] is it rebooting or what?

2002-12-17 Thread Anuerin Diaz
] Subject: Re: [newbie] is it rebooting or what? On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 8:17 am, Anuerin Diaz wrote: It's the timeout environment variable (TMOUT). After x number of seconds of inactivity the user is logged off automatically. It's a security feature. Is this set as part of a security level? I

Re: [newbie] is it rebooting or what?

2002-12-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:23, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 8:17 am, Anuerin Diaz wrote: It's the timeout environment variable (TMOUT). After x number of seconds of inactivity the user is logged off automatically. It's a security feature. Is this set as part of a security

[newbie] is it rebooting or what?

2002-12-16 Thread Thought Progress
Hello, When I xlock my Mandrake 9.0 box and walk away for more than an hour, when I come back I am logged off the machine. What is causing this? I've had SuSE 7.2-8.0 and Red Hat 7.0 - 8.0 installed on this machine (in my efforts to learn more about Linux) and this has never happened before.