Both I and a friend have noticed that our slogin connections hang (timeout?) after not using our connections for about 15 minutes. I noticed this hanging after I upgraded from potato to woody about 10 months ago, and my friend noticed this hanging after he upgraded from potato to woody about 3 months ago.
For example, from my office-computer, slogin -X my-home-computer after which I seem to remain connected as long as I interract with the connection for about a 15 minute period. But if I do not interract for about 15 minutes, then I will no longer get any keyboard interraction however many minutes/days pass, including no response from ctl-C, ctl-D, ctrl-Z. I can only get my local xterm back, and I do that with "~." However, my remote computer [home computer in my case] continues to run the corresponding "ssh" process. After using "~." on my local computer [office computer in my case], I merely accumulate these ssh processes on my remote computer [home computer in my case], a process clutter that I eventually kill after a week. I have even tried changing on my remote [home] computer /etc/ssh/ssh_conf and /etc/ssh/ssh_conf with KeepAlive no but my slogin still hangs after about 15 minutes of non-use. I notice no aberrant log entries with the pattern "ssh". Something seems to have changed between the potato and the woody versions of ssh. I welcome any suggestions. Here is some of my current Debian woody configuration (up-to-date via apt-get) as of April 9. ssh 3.0.2p1-8.3 debconf 1.0.31 libc6 2.2.5-4 libpam-modules 0.72-35 libpam-runtime 0.72-35 libpam0g 0.72-35 libssl0.9.6 0.9.6c-2 libwrap0 7.6-9 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library zlib1g 1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime -- Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com (202) 690-0380 (work) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. -- G.K. Chesterton -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]