Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:10:08 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Danny <aries@aries.postnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "connection closed due to inactivity" Message-ID: <199906040110.CAA04059@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:13:01 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906031311430.16075-100000@aries.postnet.com>
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> Hello! I have a (hopefully) quick questions for someone.
>
> I usually telnet to my computer from work and stay logged in. However, I
> usually go for quite a while idle. It's not uncommon for me to come back
> and see that my connection was closed due to inactivity.
>
> I've looked through the telnetd man pages, and can't seem to figure out
> how to turn this off. Any ideas?
If your company uses ``Fireall1'', it's probably the culprit. It
disconnects idle sessions after 15 minutes by default !
You may want to look at using something like:
while :; do printf " \b"; sleep 30; tty >&/dev/null || break; done &
> thanks!
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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