On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> I'm using bash as my shell. I looked at my ~/.bash* files, as well as
> /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile, but none of them contained any reference
> to autologout. When I start a new session and echo $autologout, nothing
> comes back.
>
> Is this normal?
I don't know much about bash, but it's possible that there is some default
built into it. I believe it is set to 60 minutes by default in tcsh.
> There is, in /etc/profile, a line that reads 'ulimit -c 1000000', but I
> suspect that this isn't related (there's no man page I could find which
> refers to this command, although I can go ulimit -h and get a very terse
> usage cue).
ulimit sets limits on the system resources available to the shell. The -c
option sets the maximum core file size in blocks. At least, that's what
it does under Solaris. :)
Michael
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