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Date:      Thu, 7 Aug 1997 12:43:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        "Jonathan A. Zdziarski" <jonz@netrail.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: De-Wedged Logins
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970807124215.19788D-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970807090604.23606A-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Jonathan A. Zdziarski wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed that if I'm telnetting into our company's box, and get
> > disconnected or something, the processes never realize that they're
> > dewedged, and never die.  Is anyone experiencing the same problems?  Is
> > there a patch for it?
> 
>   This doesn't belong on ports.
> 
>   What version?
> 
>   I've never seen this.  TCP keepalive should be set on all telnet
> sessions.  After 10 to 15 minutes, the server should shut it down.
> Unless, of course that you put processes into the background.

This does this to me - I had to write a utility to take a good guess on
who ist really there, every 15 minutes or so, and kill them off, to keep
my box clear.  This is the single onlyest thing that I did not have a
problem with on my SCO boxes,




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