Re: Dying connection

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 03:54:44PM +0900, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have to connect to a remote machine through the firewall.
> Either it is a firewall option that I've no access to, or 
> something else but my rlogin session dies after 30 min or so
> if left idle.
> 
> The question is: how I can make rlogin/telnet to keep the
> connection alive? Probably it can be done by sending a
> packet once a while. I couldn't find anything relevant in
> the man page.

In addition to what everyone else said, if you're running tcsh, make sure the
shell variable $autologout is unset.

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