gnome termnal question

[tbs-Gb/NUjX2UK8 at public.gmane.org (theBlueSage)]

On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 15:29 -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

> On 03/12/2010 02:49 PM, theBlueSage wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > so I do a lot of work in a lot of terminals across some 25 servers. I do
> > 99% of this work in gnome terminal as I like the tabbing and all the
> > bells and whistles. However it has a 'missing feature' that my coworker
> > has on his windows system (secureCRT). Sometimes I am idle on a server
> > for a period of time that is longer than the default timeout set by the
> > server's sshd_config. Obviously I get logged out. This is a pain when I
> > am tailing '-f' a file that has no output for periods of time. The
> > secureCRT has a feature where it pings the connection if there is no
> > human or server real activity, thus keeping the connection open and
> > alive. Is there any way of setting gnome terminal to do the same thing?
> >
> > I know I could just lengthen or remove the default timeout on the
> > server, but I am not the only person going on it, and I dont want to
> > open up the possibility of everyone else leaving SSH terms open all over
> > the place, sucking resources etc ....
> >
> > Any thoughts suggestions welcome :)
> >
> > Richard
> 
> Why don't you just use Gnu screen 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnu_screen) and avoid the problem 
> altogether?  Screen lets you open one or more bash sessions in a 
> remote/ssh connection, then leave it running and detach from it, come 
> back and re-attach later (from a different machine no less!)  Absolutely 
> essential tool for any *nix admin or developer to add to their toolbox 
> these days!
> 
> That said, the direct answer to the question you asked is that the SSH 
> client provides the "anti-timeout" function you were asking about, 
> though it's disabled by default.  Just add "ServerAliveInterval 240" (or 
> some suitable length of time) to your ~/.ssh/config file.


brilliant! exactly what I was looking for :) thank you! having said that
I wil also checkout Gnu_screen



> 
> HTH,
> 
> DR
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