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neutronst4r

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Registered: 2016-02-25

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[SOLVED] Automatic Logout Script from Wiki not working as intended

Greetings!
I am trying to get this script from the Wiki to work. In the tty consoles it does exactly what it is supposed to, i have tested it. However, it also closes terminal sessions within X. The wiki explicitly says it shouldn't do that.

/etc/profile.d/shell-timeout.sh

TMOUT="$(( 60*10 ))";
[ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && export TMOUT;
case $( /usr/bin/tty ) in
	/dev/tty[0-9]*) export TMOUT;;
esac

Last edited by neutronst4r (2016-02-25 02:25:02)

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Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] Automatic Logout Script from Wiki not working as intended

As written it will also set TMOUT for every login shell, so if your terminal emulator is a login shell that'd explain your symptoms.  Also, it will export TMOUT to all your terminal emulators if you start X via xinit/startx after you login to a tty.

All around, that "script" seems very fragile.  It might be better to just put the following in your shellrc:

[[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && TMOUT=600

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neutronst4r

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Registered: 2016-02-25

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] Automatic Logout Script from Wiki not working as intended

You are right, they are login shells. But your code snippet seems to do the job just fine. I have put it in /etc/zsh/zshrc so it should logout the root user too, since zsh is the default system shell.

Thank you

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