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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers lock the console after 5 minutes of inactivity. Post 302453656 by pinga123 on Thursday 16th of September 2010 02:18:14 AM
Old 09-16-2010
Code:
# w
 17:15:21 up 23 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.21
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
root     pts/1    iflmud6dlcd1n.i- 17:12    0.00s  0.13s  0.01s w

This is what i got when i fired w on the terminal it seems that it will always display 0.00 second when executed for a single user. also if there are scripts running in background using crontab at interval of 3 second. does this mean system will never show idle time greater than 5 minute.

Whats the use of export TMOUT=300?(This i have got from some other forum).
 

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bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
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