Re: Keeping SSH connections open

From: Augustus SFX van Dusen (ASFXvD_at_story.net)
Date: 06/15/05

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    Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:42:45 GMT

    On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:12:08 +0000, Darren Dunham wrote:

    > Augustus SFX van Dusen <ASFXvD@story.net> wrote:
    >
    >> I had a look into the sshd documentation, and I thought that by setting
    >> the following values in A's sshd configuration file, I could achieve my
    >> goals:
    >
    >> KeepAlive no
    >> ClientAliveInterval 60
    >> ClientAliveCountMax 600
    >
    > That would be my first attempt at it. Does the SSH server remain in
    > place on A during that time?

            Yes. A is running all the time, and so is the SSH server sshd in that
    box.

    >> My interpretation was that, with this, my ssh client on B could be
    >> unresponsive (dormant) for up to 10 hours, before the ssh server on A
    >> would close the connection. However, that did not apply to the suspend
    >> scenario I describe, like I said.
    >
    > When you resume, does everything look okay until you press a key in the
    > ssh session, or does the xterm already have a quit message from ssh or
    > something?

            Everything looks ok until I press a key in the ssh session, at which time
    an error message is briefly printed, to the effect that the connection has
    been closed (I'll try and get the exact wording next chance I get) and
    then the xterm vanishes.

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