From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Apr 25 14: 7: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (charlie.cns.iit.edu [216.47.143.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4DD37B810 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:06:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maneben@charlie.cns.iit.edu) Received: from charlie.cns.iit.edu (charlie.cns.iit.edu [216.47.143.70]) by charlie.cns.iit.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA28001; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:07:25 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:07:25 -0500 From: "Benjamin M. Manes" To: Stephen King Cc: freebsd-newbies@FREEBSD.org Subject: Re: telnet connection keeps closing In-Reply-To: <01d801bfaeed$e80cac10$0900a8c0@infoany.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Stephen King wrote: > when I telnet in to my box after about 2 minutes of idle time it just cuts > off and says "lost connection to host". It used to not do this and I don't > remeber changing anything. > STeve That setting isn't always such a bad thing, and you can keep from losing work by using the screen command. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message