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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 1995 08:39:41 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FW: auto-logout
Message-ID:  <199507200639.IAA16788@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950719154008.29475A-100000@elf.kendall.mdcc.edu> from "FreeBSD Mailing List drop" at Jul 19, 95 03:42:38 pm

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As FreeBSD Mailing List drop wrote:
> 
> Less limiting, but also less illuminating for your users. set 
> autologout=0 makes it pretty clear that it can be set to another time if 
> they so desire. If they just delete the unset, they then have the default 
> autologout time.

Instead of hacking compile-time options behind the scenes, admins that
like to change this globally are free to put it into /etc/csh.cshrc.
Why do many people prefer compile-time hacking instead of proper
run-time configuration?  Also seen as an advise in Usenet regarding
sendmail's feature of canonicalizing addresses via DNS, where
FEATURE(nocanonify) is the appropriate answer.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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