From: Stephen Spalding (ssaixadm@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Thu Aug 21 2003 - 15:18:35 EDT
Ok, so is the user supposed to be able to set read
only variables? This works on most systems but not on
all.
--- Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM wrote:
> probably it has been set to readonly in
> /some/script/executed/earlier
>
> by the way the user can bypass this by executing
>
> /bin/ksh
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Spalding [mailto:ssaixadm@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:15 PM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: TMOUT variable problem
>
>
> I have the TMOUT variable set on my 5.1 systems, and
> for some reason it doesn't seem to be working on one
> of them. What the user sees when he/she logs in is:
>
> .profile[44]: TMOUT: This variable is read only
>
> The variable does not seem to take affect as the
> session does not time out after the specified time.
>
> Here is what the setting of the env var looks like:
>
> TMOUT=10800 # 10800 seconds = 3 hours
> export TMOUT
> readonly TMOUT # make the variable unmodifiable
>
> Does anyone know what the problem here is?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Stephen Spalding
>
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