From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 8 21:12:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cdale3.midwest.net (cdale3.midwest.net [208.235.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD4215772 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 21:12:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parrothd@midwest.net) Received: from supplies (parrothd.midwest.net [208.235.2.231]) by cdale3.midwest.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA27941; Sat, 8 May 1999 23:12:46 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905090412.XAA27941@cdale3.midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@mail.midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 23:18:54 -0500 To: lore , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Timeouts in telnet connections In-Reply-To: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can change your shell to tcsh, comes with inactivity timeouts enabled by defualt, plus has a lot of other nice features. Not sure about csh and the others... At 11:56 AM 5/9/99 +1000, 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? > >Cheers >Loren > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Jonathan E. Lyons FreeBSD parrothd@midwest.net MCP, MCSE, A+ Certified http://parrothd.midwest.net/ ICQ # 14226912 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message