Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!claris!apple!voder!pyramid!ctnews!starfish!cdold From: cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Autologout of unused terminals Message-ID: <826@starfish.Convergent.COM> Date: 29 Nov 88 16:26:40 GMT References: <2682@sultra.UUCP> Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA Lines: 12 From article <2682@sultra.UUCP>, by dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan): > All he wants is the software. Anyway, I don't mind if you spell it out > one more time. I'd like to know why it is better to leave Joe User's > account available for a passer-by, than to kill it. A lot of UN*X sites To back up my system, I do an su, followed by /etc/backup&, then exit. As long as I stay logged in as a normal user, the script continues. If I log out, the script is aborted. I don't leave a terminal in SuperUser lying around, even running a script. -- Clarence A Dold - cdold@starfish.Convergent.COM (408) 434-2083 ...pyramid!ctnews!professo!dold MailStop 18-011 P.O.Box 6685, San Jose, CA 95150-6685