From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 8 19:10:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.ghis.net (slwag2p15.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBA23154F5 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 19:09:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@blues.ghis.net) Received: (from jim@localhost) by blues.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA12434; Sun, 9 May 1999 12:09:43 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 12:09:43 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: lore Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timeouts in telnet connections Message-ID: <19990509120942.F12236@blues.ghis.net> Reply-To: jim@blues.ghis.net References: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 09 May 1999 at 11:56:40 +1000, lore wrote: > I discovered this morning that I had 2 open telnet connections from > my box to another local machine. (I was called out last night and > forgot to close them before I left). Today I've been searching > several resources for a way to enable some type of timeout mechanism > so the connection is disconnected by the host after a period of > idleness (I'm thinking 60 minutes at the moment). Take a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/idled. -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@blues.ghis.net ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Global Hosting Inet Svcs http://www.ghis.net/ / \ The personal: http://www.ghis.net/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message