[ale] PuTTY

[Lightner, Jeff]

After you login with PuTTY are you using bash/sh/ksh?  If so type "echo
$TMOUT" and see if that variable is set.   The TMOUT variable tells the
shell to exit after the number of seconds specified.   Some folks
(including us) put it into /etc/bashrc and/or /etc/profiles to logout
users so they don't leave idle sessions open.   We also put a shorter
TMOUT in roots .bashrc or .bash_profile or .profile to insure su's to
root exit back to the parent user when left idle.    There is a similar
setting for csh but I don't recall what it is off the top of my head.

 

It's also possible your networking folks are doing some sort of idle
session timeout but you'd have to check with them on that.

 

PuTTY by itself doesn't have a setting for timeouts so far as I know.  I
use it quite extensively to get to Linux/BSD/HP-UX systems.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Trausch
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 2:03 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] PuTTY

 

What error? You may have to enable TCP keep alives or similar.

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On Mar 25, 2011 1:30 AM, "Terry Bailey" <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am running 64 bit CentOS Linux version 2.6.18.-164.e15 or Red Hat 
> 4.1.2-46. I have been using PuTTY and like it very much; however, it 
> keeps cutting out on me with a network error which seems to happen 
> entirely at random. I ssh in to the server with a particular user 
> and then su to root. I have tried different versions of PuTTY and, 
> so far, every version does it. It does not happen with Cygwin.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Bailey
> 
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