sshd timeout

[Ron Gilbert]

I think this is my fault some how.

It works on my other server with:

ClientAliveInterval=15
ClientAliveCountMax=3

so I must have something else conflicting with it.

Ron

On Nov 20, 2004, at 9:36 AM, Ron Gilbert wrote:

> I am trying to figure out how to keep a remote ssh session from being 
> timed out by my FreeBSD (5.3) server.
>
> I've done a lot of searching on the subject, and everyone points to 
> ClientAliveInterval, ClientAliveCountMax and KeepAlive in sshd_config. 
>   Problem is, these setting don't help since they seem to be about 
> connections closing, not leaving a terminal session idle.
>
> My problem is I've ssh'd in from my Mac to my FreeBSD server, and I 
> need that ssh window to stay open forever.  Right now it closes after 
> about 30 minutes of nothing being sent either way.
>
> Sometimes I get a "Connection closed" error, and sometimes the Mac 
> terminal window just hangs and I have to close it.  I have the same 
> problem when shh'ing in from a Windows machine using Putty, except 
> Putty has a option to send NUL chars every X minutes to keep the 
> session alive, which works, but I would rather just keep the server 
> from timing it out, and I don't use a Widows machine anymore.
>
> Is there a way to fix this?
>
> Ron
>
>
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