On Dec 29, 2007 6:04 PM, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 05:04:46PM -0800, SJS wrote: > > >If I ssh into a remote machine, my connection stays put, for awhile. If > >I'm idle for too long, the remote system logs me out, terminates my > >connection, and after awhile, I'll log back in again. > > It's probably not the remote system logging you out, it's probably a > firewall forgetting the connection and not allowing any more traffic.
Or it may be that sshd on the server doesn't have KeepAlive set. My servers have: KeepAlive yes ClientAliveInterval 2m ClientAliveCountMax 120 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and that keeps things up indefinitely. -- Brad Beyenhof http://augmentedfourth.com Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
