X clients die after a while

[Jim Knoble]

Is the home machine on a dialup connection?  Is the connection going
down and then back up?

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jim knoble | jmknoble at jmknoble.cx | http://www.jmknoble.cx/

Circa 2000-Jun-21 17:06:03 -0700 schrieb Eric Hanchrow:

: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
: that has been posted to comp.security.ssh as well.
: 
: I have sshd (from openssh 1.2.3) running on my home machine (Debian
: GNU/Linux 2.2), and when I'm at work I like to start an Emacs like
: this:
: 
:         ssh -f -l offby1 my.home.machine.net emacs
: 
: (At work I use ssh 1.2.27 from http://www.cs.hut.fi/ssh on RedHat
: 6.2.)
: 
: This works fine, except: often, after iconifying Emacs and then not
: using it for a while (an hour or two), I will restore it, and it will
: then vanish.  At the shell prompt from which I started the ssh client,
: I will see a message that says `read from my.home.machine.net:
: connection reset by peer'.  There will be no log message on the server
: machine to indicate what went wrong.
: 
: I've tried restarting the daemon with the line `KeepAlive no' in
: /etc/ssh/sshd_config, but that made no difference.
: 
: I haven't yet tried running the daemon with debugging turned on.
: Until I do that, though, can anyone suggest why this might be
: happening?