On Sat, 31-Jan-2009 at 03:16PM -0800, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote: [....]
> The problem, and maybe I'm just whining here, is that because the > data sets are large this takes several minutes where I'm basically just > sitting around. This happens once every other day as the VPN software I'm > using "times out" after about 24 hours and thus the ssh session dies. Is it possible to do anything about the VPN software? I use tightVNC to do something similar and it doesn't time out after 24 hours. Even closing the desktop machine down altogether does not lose the ssh connexion. Restarting the desktop a week later will still find the X session without loss. HTH -- ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ___ Patrick Connolly {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events (:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.