From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 8 20:56:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840F61571B for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 20:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA13519; Sat, 8 May 1999 23:18:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 23:18:02 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: lore Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timeouts in telnet connections In-Reply-To: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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