What's causing idle ssh sessions to close?

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    Default What's causing idle ssh sessions to close?

    I've got Mac-OSX and RedHat 8.0 Linux boxes. When I ssh from the Mac to
    Linux and let the connection sit idle for a long time, the connection
    times out and I get logged out of the Linux box. Shell is bash at both
    ends.

    What's causing the timeouts? I've searched the bash, ssh, and sshd man
    pages and config files, and can't find anything that talks about idle
    timeouts.
    Roy Smith Guest

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    Default Re: What's causing idle ssh sessions to close?

    On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:57:50 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
    > I've got Mac-OSX and RedHat 8.0 Linux boxes. When I ssh from the Mac to
    > Linux and let the connection sit idle for a long time, the connection
    > times out and I get logged out of the Linux box. Shell is bash at both
    > ends.
    >
    > What's causing the timeouts? I've searched the bash, ssh, and sshd man
    > pages and config files, and can't find anything that talks about idle
    > timeouts.
    Do you have TMOUT set? the 'env' command should show it.

    paroikos Guest

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    Default Re: What's causing idle ssh sessions to close?

    In article <slrnbl6kd3.12q.thad@martyria.localdomain>,
    paroikos <thad@martyria.localdomain> wrote:
    > On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 09:57:50 -0400, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
    > > I've got Mac-OSX and RedHat 8.0 Linux boxes. When I ssh from the Mac to
    > > Linux and let the connection sit idle for a long time, the connection
    > > times out and I get logged out of the Linux box. Shell is bash at both
    > > ends.
    > >
    > > What's causing the timeouts? I've searched the bash, ssh, and sshd man
    > > pages and config files, and can't find anything that talks about idle
    > > timeouts.
    >
    > Do you have TMOUT set? the 'env' command should show it.
    >
    Nope...

    [roy@bonkers roy]$ echo $TMOUT

    [roy@bonkers roy]$
    Roy Smith Guest

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