begin  quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:52:12PM -0700:
> On 5/18/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> >Run "top" when you're not doing anything. See if anything changes.
> 
> On the remote machine so there is always something happening?

Yup. So there's always being pushed down the wire.

I've had some systems where that worked, some where it didn't.

> The usual situation is that I am running trn on the remote machine,
> reading net.news.  Then I switch to a different desktop locally to do
> something else, such as a Google search stimulated by the news
> reading.  If I wait too long, when I switch back to the first desktop
> I am logged out.

That can be annoying. Screen can help, if you are trying to avoid
losing your place.

> For what it's worth, a small experiment just now shows the value of
> the timeout to be 10 minutes.  Caused by having to go help fixing
> dinner just after I logged in.  "last" shows that I remained logged in
> for (00:10) hours:minutes.

Wonder if it's something being enforced by the OS?

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