[BUGS] SSH timeout

[jonathan michaels]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 11:26:47PM +1100, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> Hello all, and a happy new year!
> 
> On this remote 4.2 stable box I'm having an issue with SSH timing out  
> or something.. It seems to be when I'm running a long command where I  
> don't provide any input for a few hours, like buildworld or a large  
> tar, cp, etc. I come back to find the message:
> 
> Read from remote host x.x.x.x: Connection reset by peer
> Connection to x.x.x.x closed.

i had similar problem a while ago
 
> Looking at the various configuration files there doesn't seem to be  
> any timeout set, I was wondering if maybe some default is compiled in?  
> Of course it could be a gateway closing the connection I guess.. But  
> I'v never had this problem on older boxes.. Maybe I'm not looking in  
> the right spot?

in my case it was the tsch shell getting fussy about no input
and timing out taking every thing with it, i did not look any
further than that in my looking for reasons .. your milage may
vary ... probably it will.

> My current work around has been to run any long processes in the  
> background and pipe their output to a file, but this doesn't always  
> capture all the messages, especially with things like buildworld..

i was trying to build a kernel on a 386, i then moved to a much
faster machine a 486dx50 *real 50 mhz motherboard i borrowed
from a friend eventually i had that problem on that machine as
well ... grr graphics enabled interface, et al.

hope this sheds some light .. hope yor new year brings/delivers
much promice

regards

jonathan

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