From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 20 15:14:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23985 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:14:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA23920 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17815; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:14:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:14:12 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Phusion cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnetd locking up and closing connection In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980219213118.00699a0c@thuntek.net> 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 Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Phusion wrote: > Hello, I was just curious as to why telnet connections to my FreeBSD > 2.2.5-stable box are closing after a certain amount of idle time. Is there > some sort of idle limit that I can specify? To add on to David's reply, Some shells have a settable timeout (ie tcsh). Also the ppp client will close the connection after a timeout (the default there is 300s). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message