Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 23:18:54 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: lore <lore@phile.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Timeouts in telnet connections Message-ID: <199905090412.XAA27941@cdale3.midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <3734EB58.956D4FAF@phile.com.au>
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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
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