Timing out a filepro session in bash

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007, Barry Wiseman wrote:
>Barry Wiseman wrote:
>> 
>> Can someone suggest a fix or a better method of timing out idle filepro sessions?
>> 

>So, I've discovered that TMOUT is not my friend at all (it only has to do
>with those times when the shell is idle waiting for interactive keyboard
>input; once you launch a program it has no effect).  As long as I'd posted
>this (totally OT as it turns out) question on the list, let me share the
>script I've created for myself.  It is written for use with remote ssh
>sessions and will select by IP address, but could easily be changed to
>username instead.

I've found that setting TMOUT=0 in the .profile or .bash_login is helpful.
Other ssh timeouts are generally NAT related and independent of the TMOUT
environment variable.

My usual problem is connections timing out when I don't want them to, not
getting a connection to time out on inactivity.

...
Bill
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