On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:17:23 -0400 Brad Tilley <b...@16systems.com> wrote:
> On 10/14/2010 05:08 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: > >>>> rm /bin/csh > >>>> cp /bin/ksh /bin/csh > >> > >>> You just forced your csh users to use ksh. Why do you want them > >>> to hate you? > >> > >> It's just a shell, they'll get over it. > > > > Remove it from /etc/shells instead. Replacing csh with ksh is evil, > > and I don't mean that in a good way. > > > > I thought about doing that too. I need to test it more to see what > happens when ksh is the shell and the user executes csh manually. I > suppose ksh will still honor TMOUT in that case. > > Brad > Don't mean to complicate things for you, but just thought I should mention that if the user does: # exec /bin/csh Then csh takes over ksh's active process, and even though the TMOUT variable is still there, csh doesn't honor it, and ksh is no longer around to object. -Ben -- be...@bendtel.com
