On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 01:32:45PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't know if this has already been posted (if it has, I haven't seen > anything about it and it hasn't been fixed as of yesterday's cooker). > > When starting an xterm (in my case, I prefer an Eterm) I've been getting > this error: > > TMOUT: readonly variable > > After doing some detective work, $HOME/.bashrc sources /etc/bashrc that > has an if statement that sources /etc/profile.d/msec.sh which, in turn, > sources /etc/sysconfig/msec which, finally, contains four ENV variables: > > UMASK_ROOT=022 > SECURE_LEVEL=2 > UMASK_USER=022 > TMOUT=0 > > Ah ha! Once that last TMOUT entry is commented out, the error message > goes away! If TMOUT is a readonly variable as the error message > says, should this line be there?
I posted the patch to fix this and sent it to Warly too who is the maintainer of the setup package that /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile files that the problem is within. That was on the 11th. Nothing's happened. So I guess this is one of those things that won't be fixed for 8.2. At any rate commenting out that line won't help. msec will just put it back on you. Here's the message I posted with the patches: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&m=101589690710622&w=2 -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
