Re: Serial port time out? (fwd)

sameer (sameer@c2.org)
Mon, 6 Nov 1995 15:07:02 -0800 (PST)

Can the login prompts timeout after 60 seconds or something?
I have way-too-few modems and having one of them tied up for 5 minutes
waiting for some random non-customer sit there not reading "login as
guest" is a significant problem.
If not, any chance of support for that in the future?

> Once upon a time Frank Heinzius shaped the electrons to say...
> >Btw., the PortMaster didn't seem to handle the value 1 (for one
> >minute). I didn't try it with the new COMOS 3.1.4, but to be safe use
> >a value greater than 1.
>
> 1 is a special value.
> 0 = off
> 1 = time out the login prompts after 5 minutes, but don't effect an
> established session.
> 2 or more = like one, but times out an established session after that number
> of idle minutes.
>
> -MZ
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