What is this about ? ******************** KeepAlive stops you being logged out due to terminal inactivity. KeepAlive detects when there has not been any recent input/output to a terminal and sends something to prevent a logout. This is most useful when some firewall/... drops the TCP Keepalive packets. Installation ************ Compile KeepAlive.c and install somewhere suitable. License ******* This software is copyright (c) Alain Williams , 2008. Read the file License (GPL version 2). Keeping up to date ****************** You may find newer versions of this software at: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/downloads.php Where you will also find references to email lists that relate to this software. Contributing ************ KeepAlive is free software (see the license). Free software grows and becomes more powerful and useful as those who gain by using it contribute their changes back to the original author. Contributions to this software are welcome. Please email the author the following: * your name & email address * your affiliation (company/institute/...) if any * the code * documentation * a statement that you are legally able to release the code and documentation * a statement transfering copyright to the Author below giving permission that it may be redistributed as part of UserAdmin under an appropriate license Contributions will be acknowledged in the Contributors file that accompanies this software. If you do not want to be acknowledged please make that clear. The author will be pleased to receive your comments, good or bad. SCCS: @(#)README 1.2 08/27/09 11:02:51