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solaris 9 console inactivity timeout

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I log into Solaris 9 server through a command line at the console and want enable a inactivity timer to log out of the server after 5 minutes. How can it be done?

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For tcsh, you need to set the autologout variable. For Ksh and Bash, the
variable is TMOUT. Read the man page for the shell that you are using.
Not all
shells support an idle timeout.

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