From: Paul LaMadeleine (plamadeleine@LIGHTBRIDGE.COM)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 10:12:16 EST
This looks like it's running the export in a sub shell and it goes away
when the sub shell is closed.
I would rewrite it to something like this:
>if [ "`who am i | awk '{print $1}'`" == "root" ]; then echo hvk;
>export TMOUT=60; readonly TMOUT; echo $TMOUT; echo OK; fi
Hope this helps,
Paul
At 03:54 PM 11/1/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>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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