From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 02:02:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC63B37B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 02:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20809.mail.yahoo.com (web20809.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84CA143F85 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 02:02:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mzm02@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030522090247.93482.qmail@web20809.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [202.190.116.25] by web20809.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 22 May 2003 02:02:47 PDT Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 02:02:47 -0700 (PDT) From: m z m To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: idle timeout X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:02:48 -0000 guys, i have my desktop pc running freebsd-5.0 release (multimedia). whenever i'm out of office, i'll access the ntfs directory, albeit read only. i always update the ports via cvsup and do portupgrade. i don't keep track of changes done to my box by portupgrade. recently i noticed that i was unable to access my box from other pc because it was disconnected from the network. this problem happens when there is no activity running on the desktop. in other words, the network connection is lost if the keyboard is idle. tia for your help. regards __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com