[YLUG] ssh to York

[Patrick Dupre]

>>
>>>  However, the connection terminated is case
>>> of unactivity after 1 or 2 hours.
>>
>> It'll be killed after just over an hour of inactivity. This is a
>> feature, not a bug as otherwise the box gets slowly filled up with
>> discarded sessions.
>
> I'd have to say, I do find this to be more of a "bug" than a
> "feature".  I find my SSH sessions regularly freezing, because
> I do tend to do non-computer work and come back to find it's
> frozen up.  SSH doesn't even recognise that it has been
> disconnected for quite some time, leaving the terminal unusable.
> This happens to me quite a lot throughout the day; if I hadn't
> discovered GNU screen, I'd be rather miffed by now!
I never really experience a freezing of the terminal, just a freezing of
my interface before it just goes away because the lost of the connection.
Unfortunately, I need a X session, is their an equivalent of
screen for a X session ?
>
> If the suggestion of using ServerAliveInterval works, I'll start
> doing that, or else always run in batch mode with a control
> socket (which sets that option implicitly).
I still need to try this option, but I have some doubts that it is going 
to work !
>
> Regards,
> Roger
>
>

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