Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 23:18:02 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: lore <lore@phile.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timeouts in telnet connections Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990508231657.7628j-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au>
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On Sun, 9 May 1999, 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). > > There seems nothing appropriate in the handbook, and the closest thing > I've > found is in "man telnetd" under the -n option to disable tcp > keep-alives. > But my reading of this is its not what I want and I can't see how to set > the > time period. > > Would someone be able to point me in the right direction? cd /usr/ports/sysutils/idled/ -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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