From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 8 18:57:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from names.phile.com.au (philli.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 829D114DA8 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 18:56:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lore@phile.com.au) Received: from phile.com.au (ibmmx200.phile.com.au [203.35.202.130] ) by names.phile.com.au (Hethmon Brothers Smtpd) ; Sun, 9 May 1999 11:55:27 +1000 Message-ID: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au> Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 11:56:40 +1000 From: lore X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Timeouts in telnet connections Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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