From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 18:01:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA02962 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 18:01:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jumpgate.cpn.org.au (slip5.tas.gov.au [147.109.237.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02941 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 18:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Received: from jumpgate.cpn.org.au (jumpgate.cpn.org.au [172.16.1.1]) by jumpgate.cpn.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02491; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:58:53 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from cpn@dpac.tas.gov.au) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:58:52 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cpn@jumpgate.cpn.org.au To: Phusion cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnetd hanging In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980214181923.006a6ddc@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 What shell are you using? some shells (such as tcsh) have an auto-logout feature. I think the default for tcsh is 60 seconds idle time. cheers, Carey Nairn On Sat, 14 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? It seems to be after 600 > seconds or so. It happens with any telnet client I use, and to friends. > Thanks for the help. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message