centos and ssh session timeouts and lockups

Lonni J Friedman netllama
Tue Aug 23 13:57:42 PDT 2005


The only time i've seen this behavior is when the hub/switch/router
between the boxes was dropping the connection.  I know i've had ssh
sessions sitting idle for days on RHEL3 RHEL4 and FC.

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Ken Leyba wrote:

> I'm running Mandrake 10.1 on my workstation and CentOS 4.1 on my test
> server and have never had a problem with sessions ending, even
> overnight.  Could it be your client that is ending the session?  When
> I use the  non-commercial SSH Secure Shell on Windows XP it ends the
> session after a few minutes of inactivity.
>
> Ken
>
> On 8/22/05, keith morse <kgmorse at mpcu.com> wrote:
> > I don't know that the problem is specifice to centos or by inference RHEL in
> > general.  But ssh sessions to a centos 4.1 based host times out/locks up
> > after about 10 minutes of idle.   Many times a ~. will not exit the ssh
> > session.  Just wondering if others have dealt with this issue and may have
> > found a solution?
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