ssh client timeout?

[Kepa Lyman]

Hi,

By RTFM, did you mean this helpful entry at redhat.com 
(http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-5.1-Manual/manual/doc120.html)

"E.9.3 How can I setup Secure Shell (SSH) on my linux system?

Due to United States of America export restrictions on munitions, Red Hat 
Linux can not distribute ssh. The site ftp.replay.com has set up various 
downloads of ssh and PGP."

(*&^(*^&^!@ ...  Or the doc search engine at redhat , which for the terms "ssh 
timeout" returns for its number one entry:

"1.  Mail Transport Agents  [0.616% Popularity: 0.00000]"

(http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=ssh%20timeout&ps=10&np=0&ul=/docs/)"


then there's this page:
(http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/ref-guide/s1-ssh-configfiles.html)

which mentions names of config files, but fails to provide any other details.

So then a page at (http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.12) mentions a  
"ServerAliveInterval" in ssh_client, but in redhat that variable isn't even 
in the config file, as FCtest2 includes openssh ver 3.6 and this feature 
isn't enabled till 3.8!

Then looking at the ssh_config man page, we find that TCPKeepAlive will keep 
the session open, but in the FC ssh_config, this variable is called 
KeepAlive.  Trying to use TCPKeepAlive results in ssh not working, and 
neither can it recognize ServerAliveInterval, and KeepAlive set to 'yes' 
seems to do nothing at all.  So, the open bsd documentation was actually kind 
of pointless for FC, since FC has gone and changed key variable names... so, 
sure, I'd love to RTFM, but where is it?!

It shouldn't take this much effort to change a simple timeout, but then it 
does enforce the saying that "linux is only free if you don't value your 
time!"

cheers

Kepa


>You could easly look this up....RTFM
>On Monday 26 April 2004 22:21, Kepa Lyman wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there someway to adjust the timeout for ssh connections in FC?  it
>> always times out on me after quite short while, very annoying.  I know this
>> is a local setting because under knoppix my connections to the same servers
>> stay open for hours...
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> kepa