Sorry it's taken me a while to do this. I ran ps Udan and ps Uroot (I think the latter should have picked up anything that would have been in ps xf.) The programs that had texinfo or man pages didn't mention, on searching the documentation for "idle," anything about automatic log-outs. (I picked "idle" because this word features prominently in the warning message I get 127 minutes after the last key-press, and 30 seconds before my uxterm dies.) That leaves as suspects the programs that didn't have texinfo or man pages:
kflushd kupdate kswapd keventd syslogd khubd tserver ptal-mlcd ptal-printd authdaemond.pgsql
Anything ring any bells?
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, MJ Ray wrote:
Try ps Udan or whatever your username is. You might find that it's running as root, which you should be able to see with ps xf as I assume it's running as a child of xinit or xdm or similar, but then you can't stop it without being root. For non-interactive tasks, you could put them in the batch queue (see man batch) and only do the package configuration interactively, which that auto-killer should be happy about. Running tasks from in screen (see man screen) should also stop the term closing from killing it.