bash $TMOUT

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Nigel Jones wrote:
>
> > Mike McGrath wrote:
> > > Sooooo, I'd like to set a $TMOUT for all of our bash sessions.  I see a
> > > lot of shells just needlessly open.  This is going to piss people off
> > > though, I haven't even done it yet and its pissing me off :)
> > >
> > > Are there any very vocal oppositions to this?  Any alternatives?  I'd like
> > > to at a minimum install it on fedorapeople.
> > >
> > I object your honour!
> >
> > a) It's a PITA, login, get distracted for an hour or two and find out that
> > your session died....
> > b) I think this is the problem I have with proxy4 (now proxy1) where it cuts
> > me off after an hour... hmmm
> > c) Fedora People is a different story, yes please do, 3 hours maybe...
> >
>
> I was thinking 8 hours..  and the problems you're seeing with proxy4 is
> something else.
>

Trying to prevent stuff like this:

XXX pts/7    XXX 06Jul08 10:11   0.06s  0.10s sshd: XXX [priv]
                 ^^^^^^^ holy moly :)

	-Mike