setting TMOUT in /etc/profile

From: Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 09:54:21 EST


Hello,

why does TMOUT have a value of 0 after logging in here :

root@0-tvgicsc1 169# grep TMOUT /etc/profile
[ `who am i|read a b; echo $a` = tgdvkho1 ] && (echo hvk ; export
TMOUT=60 ; readonly TMOUT ;echo $TMOUT ; echo ok)
root@0-tvgicsc1 170# telnet localhost
Trying...
Connected to loopback.

...

login: tgdvkho1
tgdvkho1's Password:
Last unsuccessful login: Fri Nov 1 15:33:45 NFT 2002 on /dev/pts/8 from
loopback
Last login: Fri Nov 1 15:33:49 NFT 2002 on /dev/pts/8 from loopback

hvk
60
ok
tgdvkho1@0-tvgicsc1 166# echo $TMOUT
0
tgdvkho1@0-tvgicsc1 167#

It works manually:
tgdvkho1@0-tvgicsc1 169# TMOUT=20
tgdvkho1@0-tvgicsc1 170#
Shell will time out in 60 seconds.
ksh: Timed out waiting for input.
Connection closed.

A find /etc -type f |xargs grep TMOUT returns only profile

Regards, Holger



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