From: hedrick@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) Subject: Re: tlQ: why does Linux 0.96c auto-logout during long make? Date: 29 Jul 1992 06:48:32 GMT
laakkone@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Laakkonen) writes:
>hi. i have some stuff that takes about 8 hours to compile.
>i typed "make -k all >& mall &" at 11.30pm and when i
>came back to my linux box at 7.30am, the OS had done an auto-logout
>for the user (root) who had originated that make, but the machine was
>still churning away at the make.
>if i had wanted to switch the machine off for some reason,
>i don't know how i could have killed the process to enable it.
>is this auto-logout behaviour normal from Linux (or unices in general)?
>what is the cure?
Your process ended up in the background, i.e. not attached to a tty.
You can kill it using the command "kill NN" where NN is the process
number. Use "ps" to find the process number. You can kill any
process you own, and of course root can kill anybody's.
Autologout sounds like tcsh. At least on the versions we use on the
Sun (which have a different lineage) you do "unset autologout" in
.cshrc.