[K12OSN] users kicked out on 4.2.1

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Thu Apr 14 19:37:35 UTC 2005


Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:

> Apr 13 10:12:45 solinden gdm[31911]: Ping to ws078.turtle.com:0 failed,
> whacking display!
<snip>
> The workstation where user jszoke was forcibly logged out is ws078.

There is the guilty party right there. If the server cannot ping a
terminal, after a period of time it assumes the terminal is dead and
kills off the session. The default for this is 15 seconds.

You can change this value in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf:

PingIntervalSeconds=15


-Eric
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