From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 18:35:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5B116A4CA for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:35:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wc_fbsd@xxiii.com) Received: from cartman.xxiii.com (cartman.xxiii.com [208.62.177.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD4F43D77 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:35:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wc_fbsd@xxiii.com) Received: from [192.168.0.218] (lan23.xxiii.com [208.62.177.50]) by cartman.xxiii.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9BIZ1RQ024770; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:35:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wc_fbsd@xxiii.com) Message-ID: <452D3955.5070800@xxiii.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:35:01 -0400 From: Wayne User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Noah References: <452C85C8.2050101@enabled.com> In-Reply-To: <452C85C8.2050101@enabled.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: idle auto logoff X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:35:10 -0000 Noah wrote: > cannot figure out what is auto logging me off when I am idled on the > machine. How are you talking to the machine? Is it on the same LAN segment as the host you're connecting from? (guessing you're using telnet or ssh) If you're going through some kind of router, esp a NAT one, your connections me be dropped when idle, unless you're sending some kind of keep-alive packets. -WC