On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:35:12PM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > >At work, I leave an SSH session open to my server and run Mutt off the >server. Recently, our worksite acquired a firewall that closes inactive >sessions after 15 minutes. So if I don't get mail for 15 minutes and >don't use the terminal, it drops me. > >What I'd like to do is update my .muttrc file and add a clock to the >status line. If I 'man muttrc', it tells me I can add "%<fmt>" to my >"index_format" line to show the current time. Anyone familiar with >mutt rc files? Can I add the %<fmt> to my status_format line? Any >other ideas to make activity on my screen to not drop the connection? >
What are you using for the SSH client? You may be able to set it to send keepalives. I had a problem like you describe telecommuting from the Growers' Market to efn, and it went away when i set 2-minute keepalives in PuTTY. -- "That time in Seattle... was a nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive." --Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon" _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
