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Author What's causing idle ssh sessions to close?
Roy Smith

2004-01-23, 5:01 pm

I've got Mac-OSX and RedHat 8.0 Linux boxes. When I ssh from the Mac to
Linux and let the connection sit idle for a long time, the connection
times out and I get logged out of the Linux box. Shell is bash at both
ends.

What's causing the timeouts? I've searched the bash, ssh, and sshd man
pages and config files, and can't find anything that talks about idle
timeouts.
paroikos

2004-01-23, 5:01 pm

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:57:50 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
quote:

> I've got Mac-OSX and RedHat 8.0 Linux boxes. When I ssh from the Mac to
> Linux and let the connection sit idle for a long time, the connection
> times out and I get logged out of the Linux box. Shell is bash at both
> ends.
>
> What's causing the timeouts? I've searched the bash, ssh, and sshd man
> pages and config files, and can't find anything that talks about idle
> timeouts.



Do you have TMOUT set? the 'env' command should show it.

Roy Smith

2004-01-23, 5:01 pm

In article <slrnbl6kd3.12q.thad@martyria.localdomain>,
paroikos <thad@martyria.localdomain> wrote:
quote:

> On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:57:50 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>
> Do you have TMOUT set? the 'env' command should show it.
>



Nope...

[roy@bonkers roy]$ echo $TMOUT

[roy@bonkers roy]$
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