Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:36:27 -0800 From: Ron Gilbert <lists@rzweb.com> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: sshd timeout Message-ID: <B539FF70-3B1A-11D9-9CF0-000D93B0A5F4@rzweb.com>
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I am trying to figure out how to keep a remote ssh session from being timed out by my FreeBSD (5.3) server. I've done a lot of searching on the subject, and everyone points to ClientAliveInterval, ClientAliveCountMax and KeepAlive in sshd_config. Problem is, these setting don't help since they seem to be about connections closing, not leaving a terminal session idle. My problem is I've ssh'd in from my Mac to my FreeBSD server, and I need that ssh window to stay open forever. Right now it closes after about 30 minutes of nothing being sent either way. Sometimes I get a "Connection closed" error, and sometimes the Mac terminal window just hangs and I have to close it. I have the same problem when shh'ing in from a Windows machine using Putty, except Putty has a option to send NUL chars every X minutes to keep the session alive, which works, but I would rather just keep the server from timing it out, and I don't use a Widows machine anymore. Is there a way to fix this? Ron
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