I've seen various posts here about this problem - but no answers. I'm running SSH2 2.4.0 under Solaris 2.8 in a cron job script, and the script hangs indefinitely when the server it's trying to reach is completely unavailable for various network reasons. I was really hoping for a timeout parameter in the client that would force it to abandon the connection attempt after a specified amount of time. I'm frankly amazed that no provision was made for this feature. A few have suggested setting my own alarm around the call to ssh - but that is unacceptable, because the command I am executing (assuming the connection is successful) could take an undetermined amount of time to complete. I don't want to timeout my remote command - just the connection attempt. Is there anyway to achieve this? Is this a known bug? Direct replies would be appreciated. Brian Dantes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
