On 27 June 2015 at 18:17, Benny Lofgren <bl-li...@lofgren.biz> wrote: > Let's say you have an open, but idle, ssh session to your remote server > and there's a short outage in the network somewhere between the two > endpoints. If there are no keep-alive packets trying to get through and > the actual session remains idle, then you'll never notice that there was > an outage. But if there are keep-alive packets being sent that never > reaches the destination the endpoints will terminate the connection and > you will lose your terminal session no matter what. >
Ah, that's a very interesting and likely to happen example. ssh sessions can die when you don't have these two enabled but it seems to take much longer. > (Moral of the story: +1 for using tmux/screen/nohup/batch/at/whatever to > keep long-running jobs safe. And when interactive, save your work often. > :-) ) my favorite is definitely tmux! -- ------- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboo...@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boo...@jit.si
