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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: timeout on telnetd
To: parrothd@midwest.net (Jonathan E. Lyons)
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 16:48:22 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991201164000.00aa2d40@midwest.net> from "Jonathan E. Lyons" at Dec 01, 1999 04:40:00 PM
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In a previous message, Jonathan E. Lyons said:

No, actually, it's a school district that has a
login to a DEC Alpha running OpenVMS. The terminals
sit in Libraries and when the timeout from FW-1 hits,
the session is lost and the terminal has to be rebooted
and that is a pain. 


> An intern?.. :) How about, login and run top?
> 
> 
> At 04:32 PM 12/1/99 -0600, Paul T. Root wrote:
> >Is there a way to turn off the 300 second timeout of telnetd. 
> >
> >I need to test some Firewall-1 timeout stuff and need a connection
> >to stay up indefinately without any keyboard hits.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Paul.
> >
> >-- 
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