topic telnet timeout in Operating System - Linux

telnet timeout

Chakravarthi — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:55:09 GMT

Hi all,

how do i disable the telnet inactive session timeout,

i tried TMOUT=0, no luck,, is there any other paramaters needs to be changed??

i'm using 2.1AS

chakri

Re: telnet timeout

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 18:55:22 GMT

unset TMOUT

Or if you start up an application of any kind, even top the session will appear active and not be touched by TMOUT variable.

SEP

Re: telnet timeout

Muthukumar_5 — Sat, 14 Aug 2004 01:14:58 GMT

We can separate this as two method,

1. Your telnetd service getting inactive after reaching session timeout. ( but it is not in your case )

2. If you use modem to connect the server from your machine, then it may inactive the telnet session.

You can get over this problem by running a script suggested on
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=106287
in back ground mode so that it will keep the modem in link with connection

Re: telnet timeout

Chris Saunderson — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:11:21 GMT

It's often a shell problem. If you're using tcsh, then unset AUTOLOGOUT.

Re: telnet timeout

Chakravarthi — Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:17:19 GMT

i'm not using any modem,

i'm suspecting my layer 3 switch which is running tcpproxy