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connection timing out

  • 09-07-2012 9:31am
    #1
    equivariant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭


    A bit of a noob question.

    I have a letshost VPS (running Ubuntu 11.10) that I am using to learn about web programming. My problem is that if a terminal is left inactive for about 10 minutes it disconnects, which is annoying as I like to keep 3 or 4 shells
    open, but some of them I only need to use infrequently. I know that this
    is not a problem with my ssh client as I don't experience this problem on
    other servers. Is this something that I can easily fix - is there some setting
    that determines how long a shell can be inactive for?


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  • #2
    Giuseppe90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Giuseppe90


    What are you using to connect ? If you are connecting from a linux box you could add the following to your /etc/ssh/ssh_config

    ServerAliveInterval 60

    This will send a message to the server if no data has been received in 60 seconds and should keep your connection active


  • #3
    equivariant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭equivariant


    Giuseppe90 wrote: »
    What are you using to connect ? If you are connecting from a linux box you could add the following to your /etc/ssh/ssh_config

    ServerAliveInterval 60

    This will send a message to the server if no data has been received in 60 seconds and should keep your connection active

    Thanks.
    Sometimes I connect from a linux box, sometimes using putty on my w*****s laptop


  • #4
    Giuseppe90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33 ✭Giuseppe90


    In the "Connection" section of your putty settings there should be an option to send null packets - change that from 0 to 60 and that should do it. You will need to do that and save for each session you have saved.

    Hope that helps :)


  • #5
    equivariant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 966 ✭✭✭equivariant


    Giuseppe90 wrote: »
    What are you using to connect ? If you are connecting from a linux box you could add the following to your /etc/ssh/ssh_config

    ServerAliveInterval 60

    This will send a message to the server if no data has been received in 60 seconds and should keep your connection active

    Actually I just realised that if I put

    ClientAliveInterval 60

    in sshd_config on the server then this sorts the problem from the server side, so I don't have to configure the clients individually


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