Idle time out

[Nigel Metheringham]

dzhao1 at gl.umbc.edu said:
> My ssh connection times out every 10 minutes or so and I want it to
> keep open for like 3 hours so that I don't have to relogin.

This would normally be a function of the shell/utilties/policy on the 
box you are logging into and nothing to do with ssh.

There is a keep-alive function - this I understand is done by putting a 
keep-alive on the socket used, and the timeouts cannot be easily 
tweaked on OSes I use.

	Nigel.
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