[YLUG] ssh to York

[Patrick Dupre]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Patrick Dupre wrote:

>>>
>>>>  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 !
Sorry, I tried this option with 7200, and if do work. I am going to try
with 1800.
> 
>> Regards,
>> Roger
>> 
>> 
>
>

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