[98119] in RedHat Linux List
RE: telnet time-out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Fri Nov 6 17:24:59 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:31:15 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: Michael Jinks <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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And I tried setting this to a HUGE number of seconds - no difference either.
First off, does anyone know who this message is refering to?
Connection closed due to inactivity
Connection closed by foreign host.
i.e who is the foreign host? the machine being telneted to, or the machine I
am on?
===== Original Message from Michael Jinks <redhat-list@redhat.com> at
11/06/98 5:05 pm
>John H Darrah wrote:
>>
>> >From the bash man page:
>>
>> TMOUT If set to a value greater than zero, the value is
>> interpreted as the number of seconds to wait for
>> input after issuing the primary prompt. Bash ter-
>> minates after waiting for that number of seconds if
>> input does not arrive.
>
>
>I have this problem on a RH5.1 box where 'echo $TMOUT' always returns
>0. It doesn't happen on any of the other machines that I use (all
>RH5.x), so I know I must have tracked it down sometime before, but I
>sure can't find it now.
>
>
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