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How to keep from timing out so frequently on UNIX?

When logging in via "dzdo us - [user_name]", the server times out after like 2 minutes! I do heavy work on it sporadically, and it's like 50 times a day I'm logging on, then dzdo, etc.

could I run a small job that would simulate "pwd", so the thing does not time out? And this would run every 30s.

And I'd want to turn it off, if I am going to be doing some "vi" editing, then back on.

David Favor

I think you mean sudo rather than dzdo.

The syntax you're using looks very odd.

Try this instead...

sudo -u $user bash

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David Favor

First I've come across dzdo.

Learn something new every day.

Thanks dfke!

William Peck

ASKER

I'm sure I don't have access to the configuration file, and even if I did I wouldn't want to mess with it. I'll have to talk to the Admin.

Thanks!

dfke

Hi,

Happy to help both of you! :D

Cheers

William Peck

ASKER

ah, what I am looking for is crontab, run a job every X minutes ... but I don't have authority to run cron ...

https://www.garron.me/en/linux/run-cronjob-every-5-five-minutes-hours.html

Gerwin Jansen

When you're not allowed to use cron, ask your system administrator to add your account to the cron.allow file (assuming that your account isn't in the cron.deny file :) ).

William Peck

ASKER

got' cha, thank you, Gerwin!