ssh becomes unresponsive after several minutes of idling

k4zau · 10-27-2004, 11:44 AM

I have an old PC running Debian (sarge) that I'm currently using as an SSH server. If I login from another computer but don't enter any commands for a few minutes, the connection becomes idle and I have to hit Enter several times to bring it back up, sometimes causing a snafu in the program that is running. I want to disable this feature.

Will the command
setterm -blank 0
solve the problem?

acid_kewpie · 10-27-2004, 11:47 AM

why don't you try it to find out?

k4zau · 10-27-2004, 05:12 PM

I did, but I didn't have time to let it idle long enough in order to see.
I suppose I'll try again. Actually I was wondering if there was a more permanent solution to the problem.

UsualTuxpect · 10-27-2004, 05:27 PM

Add this ---> KeepAlive yes

to
1) $HOME/.ssh/config
2)/etc/ssh/sshd_config
3)/etc/ssh/ssh_config

k4zau · 10-27-2004, 09:14 PM

Thank you for the tips. We'll see how this works.