topic Re: TMOUT variable in Operating System - HP-UX

TMOUT variable

B Wade Moll — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:42:29 GMT

Some users on the system are telling me that their sessions are timing out on them.

Advised them to do an "unset TMOUT" or "set TMOUT=0" to disable it.

They're telling me that they get the following:

SPPMDBS1:/home/oracle> unset TMOUT
sh: TMOUT: This variable is read only.

Never heard of a "read only" variable. Is there a file on the server that I can go into as admin and disable this?

Thank you :)

Re: TMOUT variable

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:48:23 GMT

Hi:

If you are using TMOUT in your user's profiles, then this is the correct way to set it up :-)

Yes, "readonly" shell variables are established by doing:

# readonly TMOUT=60

(or);

# typeset -r MYTHING=1

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: TMOUT variable

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:51:26 GMT

Hi (again):

...and I would look to '/etc/profile' for a global declaration.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: TMOUT variable

Grayh — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:53:14 GMT

# export TMOUT=0

will set an infinite timeout.

DMV

Re: TMOUT variable

B Wade Moll — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:56:12 GMT

thank you !!