Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Bob Miller
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. Go to the document root

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031112.1424, Bob Miller said ... In a more serious vein, I have the same problem at TiVo, so I wrote this script, which I called printloop. #!/bin/sh while sleep 60 do echo -ne '\1' done When it runs, I see: ne \1 Show up on the screen. Server is

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:24:54PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: You'll either have to kill printloop before you log out or terminate ssh by typing ~.. What does ~. do? I tried it on my command line in an ssh session but it said command not found. Nothing in the bash man page. Cory -- Cory

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031112.1518, Rob Hudson said ... I tried using the escaped character insert mode in Vim. And it works! Thanks kbob. ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Ralph Zeller
Neat idea; I tried it but it didn't work, the status_format command doesn't interpret the %fmt command the same as the index_format command, and even that doesn't update without some keyboard activity as far as I can tell. How about something silly like this: ping -i 840 myisp.net /dev/null

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Rob Hudson
On 20031112.1352, Patrick R. Wade said ... 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. I'm using just

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Cory Petkovsek
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

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Barrett
Maybe ~ followed by ^Z (control-z) is what he is going for here? To suspend SSH, you need to put a tilde ('~') on a newline before doing the usual control-Z to suspend the SSH connection (this is protection for you, so that you can suspend another program running through SSH without suspending

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Larry Price
man ssh_config in $HOME/.ssh/config KeepAlive yes On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 03:43 PM, Rob Hudson wrote: On 20031112.1352, Patrick R. Wade said ... 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

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread jgw
Google (and Google Groups) is your friend: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/OpenSSH_ClientAliveInterval.html http://ajmitch.dhis.org/devel/info/misc/vinces_guide_to_openssh.txt

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Darren Hayes
PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh On 20031112.1352, Patrick R. Wade said ... 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

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:38:18PM -0800, Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:24:54PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: You'll either have to kill printloop before you log out or terminate ssh by typing ~.. What does ~. do? I tried it on my command line in an ssh session but it said

Re: [eug-lug]mail over ssh

2003-11-12 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:59:47PM -0800, Bob Miller wrote: Cory Petkovsek wrote: What does ~. do? I tried it on my command line in an ssh session but it said command not found. Nothing in the bash man page. Look in ssh(1). Tells ssh to disconnect. You have to type it at the