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Date:      Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:10:08 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Danny <aries@aries.postnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "connection closed due to inactivity" 
Message-ID:  <199906040110.CAA04059@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 1999 13:13:01 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906031311430.16075-100000@aries.postnet.com> 

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> Hello!  I have a (hopefully) quick questions for someone.
> 
> I usually telnet to my computer from work and stay logged in.  However, I
> usually go for quite a while idle.  It's not uncommon for me to come back
> and see that my connection was closed due to inactivity.
> 
> I've looked through the telnetd man pages, and can't seem to figure out
> how to turn this off.  Any ideas?

If your company uses ``Fireall1'', it's probably the culprit.  It 
disconnects idle sessions after 15 minutes by default !

You may want to look at using something like:

while :; do printf " \b"; sleep 30; tty >&/dev/null || break; done &

> thanks!

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !          <brian@uk.FreeBSD.org>




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