SUMMARY: SSH Client Keep Alive

Thank you to those who took the time to respond.

1 person suggested I read "man ssh_config"

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2 people suggested looking at screen:

1/ Log onto your remote host.

2/ Start a screen session:-

$ screen

3/ Start your long running process.

4/ Detach from screen (Ctrl-A,D), then log out

wait.......

5/ Later, log back in, and re-attach:-

$ screen -r

You'll need GNU screen installed on the remote system, but it's well
worth it.

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1 person suggested looking at "spinner"
http://www.laffeycomputer.com/spinner.html to load on the server I'm
attaching to.

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The reason I was looking for something client based is I don't have admin
rights on all the servers I'm connecting to, and since the DEFAULT in
ssh_config is to send keepalives, I was looking for some other method that
might be useful.  I'll check out all the suggestions, thanks again!




-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Farley [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 9:27 AM
To: linuxmanagers-35TzE1X9F6582KRnZfj+bdi2O/[email protected]
Subject: SSH Client Keep Alive

Does anyone know of a way to set a client keep alive when ssh'ing from
Linux?

Putty on Windows has this functionality, but I haven't found a way to do
that from Linux.

I have some long upgrade processes that I have to hop over several hosts to
run, and it times out and resets the connection periodically.
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