How do I change it on my server to set a specified hour period to wait
before it disconnects custoemers who have telneted in to my server? Right
now it seems to be disconnecting people very quickly.......

I am on AIX 5.1 on a RISC6000 box

Thank you much

I forgot to mention they are connecting through a windows program interface.
The systems used range from Win98 and up.

"scorpion53061" <scorpion_53061@nospamhereeveryahoo.com> wrote in message
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> How do I change it on my server to set a specified hour period to wait
> before it disconnects custoemers who have telneted in to my server? Right
> now it seems to be disconnecting people very quickly.......
>
> I am on AIX 5.1 on a RISC6000 box
>
> Thank you much
>

The TMOUT environment variable controls the amount of idle time
allowed when you sit at the command prompt with no input.

You specify it in seconds.

We usually do this in /etc/profile, so that no one can change it, or
avoid picking it up in their environment.

export TMOUT=3600 # 60 Minutes
readonly TMOUT

Smartass users will figure out that by sitting in vi, emacs, pine,
gdb, etc... Anything *other than* the ksh command line, will cause
this to *not* drop the after the specified TMOUT interval.

We follow up with a "w" to periodically check inactivity time for
those wisenheimers, and chastise accordingly.

Really smartass users will figure out how to use tset to make TMOUT
not readonly anymore, and then unset it.

Hope this helps,
-Dan.

"scorpion53061" <scorpion_53061@nospamhereeveryahoo.com> wrote in message news:<4150392b@news.mcleodusa.net>...
> I forgot to mention they are connecting through a windows program interface.
> The systems used range from Win98 and up.
>
> "scorpion53061" <scorpion_53061@nospamhereeveryahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:41503038$1@news.mcleodusa.net...
> > How do I change it on my server to set a specified hour period to wait
> > before it disconnects custoemers who have telneted in to my server? Right
> > now it seems to be disconnecting people very quickly.......
> >
> > I am on AIX 5.1 on a RISC6000 box
> >
> > Thank you much
> >