SSH problems

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:25:22 -0500
Michael Peek <peek at tiem.utk.edu> wrote:

> What option is causing me
> to be logged out after a period of inactivity? My machines at work do
> not do this, it only happens when I log in from my ubuntu laptop, so I'm
> assuming that this is another option in /etc/ssh_config, but I can't
> find anything in the man page that looks like it.

Try this:

make a file ~/.ssh/config  
 
add the following line to it:

ServerAliveInterval 15

The idea is that ssh should now give the server a kick every so often to
remind it that you are there :)

Peter

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