Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-24 Thread Eric De Mund
Kamaraju, Eric De Mund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This email was composed on my ISP which I am ssh'ed in to from a screen session on my home system. Which, in turn, I've ssh'ed in to from work. If my work-home connection dies, I simply reconnect to home via ssh, then resume my screen session. When I

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Gerlach
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Eric De Mund wrote: This email was composed on my ISP which I am ssh'ed in to from a screen session on my home system. Which, in turn, I've ssh'ed in to from work. If my work-home connection dies, I simply reconnect to home via ssh, then resume my screen session.

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-23 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eric De Mund wrote: As others have suggested, put this in the $HOME/.ssh/config file on your local machine: ServerAliveInterval 60 The ServerAliveInterval option solved my problem. Thanks for all the replies, guys! raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi

making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't make these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 minutes), the ssh connection just freezes up. As a result, I have to kill all the gvim, xterm windows opened from that terminal. This is very annoying if I am

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Kamaraju, I have the same problem, I ended up resolving it by setting the following option; ServerAliveInterval=30 This forces SSH to send traffic around every 30 seconds if it's idle, keeping my work's firewall happy. Cheers, Tyler Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/22/08 14:23, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't make these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 minutes), the ssh connection just freezes up. As a result, I have to kill all the gvim, xterm windows opened

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Ketil Froyn
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/22/08 14:23, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't make these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 minutes), the ssh connection just

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Eric De Mund
Raju, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ] I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't ] make these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 ] minutes), the ssh connection just freezes up. As a result, I have to ] kill all the gvim, xterm windows

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:23:29PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I often use ssh to access other computers at school. However, I can't make these connections persistent. If there is no activity (say in 20 minutes), the ssh connection just freezes up. As a result, I have to kill all the

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Eric De Mund wrote: This email was composed on my ISP which I am ssh'ed in to from a screen session on my home system. Which, in turn, I've ssh'ed in to from work. If my work-home connection dies, I simply reconnect to home via ssh, then resume my screen session. When I resume the screen

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread H.S.
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Does screen work well with graphical applications? I know it is a very good app for text based applications such as vim. But what if I use gvim/texmacs for most of the editing? I am using screen with rtorrent (terminal graphics based) and irssi (terminal IRC

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:10:27 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Eric De Mund wrote: This email was composed on my ISP which I am ssh'ed in to from a screen session on my home system. Which, in turn, I've ssh'ed in to from work. If my work-home connection dies, I simply

Re: making ssh connections persistent

2008-10-22 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Oct 23, 2008 at 00:27:23 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: Screen is a truly great program but this has nothing to do with running graphical apps using X-forwarding over ssh (which I believe is what you are doing). Here is more information on screen: