If you are using Accuterm, do you have keep alive set? That's on the connection tab under the Advanced button.
Jerry Banker > -----Original Message----- > From: Gabriel Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [U2] Problems with disconnects - telnet > > I'll print out the manpage. vt100, unfortunately, is not an option; we > need > ADDS Viewpoint A2 Enhanced emulation that AccuTerm does. Now, I have > (without involving screen) proxied telnet sessions by setting the TERM > variable to addsvp and the enhanced mode (if I recall correctly) worked > fine > in AccuTerm. > > This will be an interesting project, indeed. Thanks for your help. I > will > probably create a demo account when I have time and see what I can do > to > make this work. > > Gabe > > On Jan 23, 2008 5:20 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Gabe, > > > > We are using screen (version 4.0.2) on Unix to ensure that we have no > > disconnected sessions. We are only using it on our development > machine for > > the moment but intend to roll it out to production pretty soon. > > > > In the unix profile for the user we check to see if there is any > active > > screen session by doing a screen -ls - this will only display > sessions for > > that user. If there is a disconnected session the profile attaches to > that > > session otherwise it creates a new one. > > > > It works well - even repaints the window when the user reattaches. > > However, note that the only terminal emulation it supports is vt100. > You > > may also need to change the default command escape sequence (ctrl-a > takes > > you to the screen command line where the user can do all sorts of > damage), > > but all of that is pretty well documented in the man pages. > > > > cheers, > > > > asvin > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/01/2008 03:27:31: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Back in the mvBASE days, a telnet disconnect would allow an > interactive > > > user's activities to continue. UV is "smarter" than this, however, > and > > is > > > quick to get rid of disconnected users. At least, it does not > behave in > > the > > > same way. > > > > > > What I would like to know is if there are facilities within UV to > allow > > this > > > sort of behavior. > > > > > > One scenario I dreamed up involved using the UNIX utility screen > (which > > has > > > been ported to Windows with cygwin). The issue would be tying > screen > > > sessions to existing telnet sessions and incorporating security so > that > > we > > > do not have people resuming one another's screen sessions. Has > anyone > > > attempted this? Or is there a third party tool to do this? > > > > > > The key thing is: as much transparency to the end user as possible. > The > > > tools we have available on the client side are AccuTerm 2K2; and UV > > (running > > > on various flavors of Windows 2000-2003) on our servers. If screen > is a > > > potential solution, the cygwin layer could be installed. > > > > > > The reason I ask is because disconnects - which we have some > control > > over; > > > but often is left to the whims of customer infrastructure, can > cause > > garbed > > > up transactions; which gives us untold headaches. > > > > > > Ideas, anyone? We wouldn't go back to mvBASE if our lives depended > on > > it; > > > but we do need to solve the disconnect issues for our customers who > > refuse > > > to pay for high quality data connections to our servers and the > > associated > > > equipment. > > > > > > Thanks much, > > > Gabe > > > ------- > > > u2-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > > > > > > ************************************************************ > > HSBC Bank plc may be solicited in the course of its placement efforts > for > > a new issue, by investment clients of the firm for whom the Bank as a > firm > > already provides other services. It may equally decide to allocate to > its > > own proprietary book or with an associate of HSBC Group. This > represents a > > potential conflict of interest. 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