Re: telnetd timing out?

2002-01-01 Thread Laurent de Segur
On Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at 03:25 AM, Elizabeth Barham wrote: One thing, though, is to make sure you've disabled Bash's autologout feature, if you're using that. What's this? "To make the bash shell automatically logout after not being used for a period of time, set t

Re: telnetd timing out?

2002-01-01 Thread Elizabeth Barham
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rog=E9rio?= Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wouldn't adding "-n" to the telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf solve > the problem? I vaguely recall doing that on a friend's network > and it worked (but it was more than 2 years ago and I don't > remember the details o

Re: telnetd timing out?

2001-12-31 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 30 2001, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Another person wrote back and simply stated "debian-user"; I thought > this might be a daemon or cron job that is periodically called which > disconnects idle users but I have not been able to find it. Wouldn't adding "-n" to the telnetd in /etc/in

Re: telnetd timing out?

2001-12-31 Thread Michel Lanners
On 31 Dec, this message from Michel Dänzer echoed through cyberspace: > On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 21:45, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > >> > 2- the remote box auto-logging you out. >> >> Most likely but I checked syslog; I figured that there might be >> mention of it "User has been idle 2 hours. Disconne

Re: telnetd timing out?

2001-12-30 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 21:45, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > 2- the remote box auto-logging you out. > > Most likely but I checked syslog; I figured that there might be > mention of it "User has been idle 2 hours. Disconnected." but there > was no mention of it. Could it simply be the TCP connection

Re: telnetd timing out?

2001-12-30 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 02:45:40PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another person wrote back and simply stated "debian-user"; I thought > this might be a daemon or cron job that is periodically called which > disconnects idle users but I have not been a

Re: telnetd timing out?

2001-12-30 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Michel Lanners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two things come to mind: > > 1- Firewall: some (most?) firwalls have options for dropping idle TCP >connections. Since by default telnet doesn't use any keepalive, that >may be the problem here. It need not be a real firewall; could be a >fi

Re: telnetd timing out?

2001-12-30 Thread Michel Lanners
On 29 Dec, this message from Elizabeth Barham echoed through cyberspace: > This isn't powerpc specific but I perhaps someone knows where I might > be able to look to fix a property of (probably) telnetd: > > It closes my connections after a long period of inactivity. Two things come to mind: 1-

Re: telnetd timing out?

2001-12-29 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 05:42:32AM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Hi, > > This isn't powerpc specific but I perhaps someone knows where I might > be able to look to fix a property of (probably) telnetd: > > It closes my connections after a long period of inactivity. > > I have another box runn

telnetd timing out?

2001-12-29 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Hi, This isn't powerpc specific but I perhaps someone knows where I might be able to look to fix a property of (probably) telnetd: It closes my connections after a long period of inactivity. I have another box running Debian-i386 and I can leave telnet running it all day - not touching a key - a