Hi all,

Is there a way to prevent timeouts or extend how long until a timeout occurs for ssh?

I'm the admin (best one for the job, but far from great) of a linux machine here, and a colleague needs to do some stats work on the machine. She has been complaining that when she starts an analysis her ssh terminal freezes before the analysis is complete.

I assume that she is being timed out due to inactivity. I have tried changing the TMOUT ENV variable, but that was unsuccessful.

Ideally I would like to know how to just change how long before she timesout as opposed to all users.

Thanks for your help.

This is not really a reply, but since i don't see any responses yet, perhaps a futher question on or observation about this topic, if this sort of thing is not impolite, might prompt some replies...

The observation is about connections between linux machines and unix servers:

For example, when connecting to certain unix servers (not all) using linux (windows machines on same network do Not have same prob), the connections stall (they don't necessarily ever disconnect, but if the stall is a long one, after several minutes of not seeing any changes, which happens, it might seem like a disconnect) -- but at other times, when connecting to other (different) unix servers, there is no stalling, but there are timeouts after a short period of inactivity.

That is, on the certain remote servers where i don't stall for any period of any time, i do timeout

Again, don't know if there is a connection, but if so, perhaps someone might be prompted to comment?

Thanks --

well, I've always seen timeout disconnects when using telnet, but never with ssh:

I mean, on fridays, I leave my office's PC switched on with 2 or 3 ssh connections to different machines (Solaris, Linux, etc,...), and when I come back on Monday, they are still there.

Problems with your switching equipment, maybe ?