ssh disconnect

[Nils Kassube]

rikona wrote:
> I've been browsing using an ssh connection to a proxy for quite a
> while, but lately it seems to be disconnecting fairly frequently. I
> don't have a config file in my .ssh dir, and the etc/ssh/ssh_config
> file does not have a serveraliveinterval 60 entry. If I create a
> config file in .ssh, with that entry, will that override all the
> entries in the etc file so that I have to also place the active etc
> entries in my local directory? And, if I do that, should that take
> care of the disconnect issue?

I'm not sure if the system wide config file would be ignored, but there
is another way - from "man ssh":

| -o option
|    Can be used to give options in the format used in the configuration
|    file. This is useful for specifying options for which there is no
|    separate command-line flag. For full details of the options listed
|    below, and their possible values, see ssh_config(5).

So I would try the command

ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 user at host ...


Nils