Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 07:15:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906090714300.28222-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <86d7z6j89k.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
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On 8 Jun 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
> >> This wouldn't help the poor sod whose connection gets shot down every
> >> eight days while he's not there and doesn't know what hit him.
> > If the poor sod hasn't touched his xterm for 8 days, he's either dead
> > or he doesn't care if it goes away.
>
> Again, Matt, with all due respect, please do not post your operational
> habits as universals. Somebody who keeps a session to a server around
> so they can see syslog messages if there's a problem may have an idle
> connection for weeks.
If he sees syslog messages, that's not idle.
>
> In case you still doubt the existance of such a person, I give you a
> counterexample. Having just spoken with nemo, I am quite certain that
> he is alive and well, and from my dealings with him have no doubt he
> would become somewhat miffed if I were to kill off several of his
> sessions.
>
> Cheers,
> joelh
>
> detlev$ finger nemo@[deleted]
> [[deleted]]
> Login: nemo Name: Joel N. Weber II
> Directory: /gb/nemo Shell: /usr/local/bin/bash
> On since Thu Jun 03 23:49 (EDT) on tty1 2 days 3 hours idle
> On since Wed May 19 14:43 (EDT) on tty2 27 minutes 34 seconds idle
> On since Sun May 30 22:24 (EDT) on tty3 2 days 1 hour idle
> On since Sun May 30 22:27 (EDT) on tty4 2 days 3 hours idle
> On since Mon May 31 00:15 (EDT) on tty5 2 days 1 hour idle
> On since Mon May 31 16:07 (EDT) on tty6 2 hours 40 minutes idle
> On since Fri Jun 04 20:58 (EDT) on tty7 3 days 1 hour idle
> On since Fri Jun 04 22:28 (EDT) on tty13 2 days 3 hours idle
> On since Sat Jun 05 17:05 (EDT) on tty14 2 days 1 hour idle
> On since Sat Jun 05 15:25 (EDT) on tty15 2 days 2 hours idle
> On since Sat Jun 05 21:59 (EDT) on tty16 2 days 3 hours idle
> On since Sat Jun 05 22:11 (EDT) on tty17 3 days 2 hours idle
> On since Sat Jun 05 00:26 (EDT) on tty18 2 days 12 hours idle
> On since Sun Jun 06 19:15 (EDT) on tty19 2 days 1 hour idle
> On since Wed May 19 15:57 (EDT) on ttyp0 from xanthine:0.0
> 10 days 1 hour idle
> On since Wed May 19 15:58 (EDT) on ttyp1 from xanthine:0.0
> 10 days 1 hour idle
> On since Wed May 19 16:11 (EDT) on ttyp2 from xanthine:0.0
> 12 days 23 hours idle
> On since Wed May 19 16:45 (EDT) on ttyp3 from xanthine:0.0
> 15 days 21 hours idle
> On since Wed May 19 17:29 (EDT) on ttyp4 from xanthine:0.0
> 9 days 23 hours idle
> On since Wed May 19 17:43 (EDT) on ttyp5 from xanthine:0.0
> 10 days 2 hours idle
> On since Wed May 19 17:44 (EDT) on ttyp6 from xanthine:0.0
> 9 days 23 hours idle
> On since Wed May 19 18:09 (EDT) on ttyp7 from xanthine:0.0
> 15 days 21 hours idle
> On since Thu May 20 20:20 (EDT) on ttyp8 from xanthine:0.0
> 19 days idle
> On since Wed May 19 18:35 (EDT) on ttyp9 from xanthine:0.0
> 16 days 22 hours idle
> On since Wed May 19 21:54 (EDT) on ttypa from xanthine:0.0
> 20 days 2 hours idle
> On since Thu May 20 16:06 (EDT) on ttypb from xanthine:0.0
> 16 days 2 hours idle
> On since Thu May 20 21:05 (EDT) on ttypc from xanthine:0.0
> 9 days 10 hours idle
> On since Thu May 20 23:51 (EDT) on ttypd from xanthine:0.0
> 18 days 20 hours idle
> Last login Mon Jun 07 19:22 (EDT) on ttypf from zygorthian-space
> New mail received Wed Jun 09 00:29 1999 (EDT)
> Unread since Wed Jun 09 00:00 1999 (EDT)
> No Plan.
>
> --
> Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org
> Fourth law of programming:
> Anything that can go wrong wi
> sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped
>
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