[Ti] Strange gremlins at work...

[Glenn L. Austin]

on 7/25/04 3:54 PM, John Griffin at jwegriffin at mac.com wrote:

> I have been hounded by a strange being that inhabits my Powerbook. This is
> how it manifests itself:
> 
> When I leave a process running that would obviously take an hour or more,
> when I return I invariably find that this gremlin has attempted to log me
> out in my absence. I always find one or more alerts that the attempt to quit
> the Finder (Photoshop, TechTool Pro, DiskWarrior or whatever) and log out
> has been cancelled, etc, etc.
> 
> Nobody else has access to my machine, so I don't understand what is going on
> here. As soon as the process is competed, since so many background processes
> have been forced to quit by the actions of the above-mentioned gremlin, I
> have to reboot.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what may be going on here?

System Preferences -> Security.

Log out after X minutes of inactivity.

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