On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ben Greear wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > > > I have scripts that ssh into large numbers of boxes, which are sometimes > > down. The timeout for figuring out the box is down is over an hour. This is > > just insane. > > > > Telnet and ftp behave similarly, or at least tthey lasted the 5 minutes I was > > willing to wait, anyway. Basically anything that calls connect(). If the > > box doesn't respond in 15 seconds, I want to give up. > > > > Is this a problem with the kernel or with glibc? If it's the kernel, I'd > > expect a /proc entry where I can set this, but I can't seem to find one. Is > > there one? What would be involved in writing one? > > > > You can tune things by setting the tcp-timeout probably..I don't > know exactly where to set this.. /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout default is 60. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
