From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 2 15: 2:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from navy.csi.cam.ac.uk (navy.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB95314C26 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 15:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bjc23@cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.193.197]) by navy.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #3) id 10e4K1-0000H9-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 May 1999 23:02:49 +0100 Received: from bjc23 by bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Postman Pat (and his black and white cat)) id 10e4K1-0000l9-00; Sun, 2 May 1999 23:02:49 +0100 Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 23:02:49 +0100 (BST) From: "Ben J. Cohen" X-Sender: bjc23@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet idle timeouts Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 Danny wrote > Does anyone know how to get rid of the idle timeouts when a user is > telnetted in? I often telnet into my box from work, and sit idle for a > while. I'll come back only to see "Connection closed due to inactivity." > I've looked through the telnetd man pages, and through practically every > file in /etc for it, but no luck. > > Any ideas? FYI, I'm using 2.2.7 I would also like to stop telnet giving idle timeouts, but I don't have access to the (Solaris) box which I am telnetting to. Is there any way to instruct or "adjust" telnet (or rsh/rlogin) to somehow keep the connection alive (by sending a CR or something every so often if necessary, like one Win telnet program I know of), or is there another program which can do this? Thanks, Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message