> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Telnet timeout
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:55:53 +1100 (EST)
> From: Alexander Else <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Marty wrote:
>
> > Quick question:
> >
> > How do you increase the timeout value for telnet?
>
> Not too sure what you mean.
>
> If you mean you're telneted onto a machine and it logs you out with
> a message like "auto-logout" then you can unset the auto-logout
> environment setting or set it to a higher value.
>
> If you mean you're going through a masqueraded connection (as seems
> to be fairly common these days) and your sessions are timing out, you
> can adjust the timeouts. How you do this depends on what you're using
> to do the masquerading, with ipchains you use the -M and -S flags.
>
export TMOUT=0 ## disabled
export TMOUT=60 ## 60 minutes
To disable the shell prompt logout in KSH on AIX.
For the perverted:
TMOUT=0 export
Ken
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