On February 26, 2004 10:26 am, Kevin Goddard wrote: > First, I apologize for immediatly subscribing to this list and then > emailing it, not really knowing if this is the appropriate place. However, > I am kind of desperate for some help and this was the best bet I could > find. I am running two machines with RedHat 9.0. Both of them will log > out an idle user after 131 seconds. This is less then helpful, as I tend > to login to a machine via SSH and move between windows. Also, it will > even log out a SCP or FTP connection. For the life of me I cannot find > where I can increase (or remove) this idle timeout. If anyone can point me > in some direction, it would be really helpful. > Thanks > Kevin Goddard Hi Kevin, Is this only via remote logins or does it also happen at a console? 131 seconds, thats pretty quick. It sounds more like a networking issue than a system thing simply because if you changed the settings to time out an account on both systems, I'm sure you'd know it. sshd has "keep alive" on by default in /etc/ssh/sshd_config account timeout is set in /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile using the var "TMOUT=xxxx", with xxxx being the number of seconds of inactivity before logout. It is not set by default (so won't time-out) but you can add it. If it is only via remote access with ssh etc and not affecting local logins, you could try: ssh localhost ssh to a third host ssh from a third host if possible remove any hubs/switches and use a crossover cable to test (or try alternate ports in hub/switch) telnet (just to test) do not su to another user once logged in (?) flakey nic There is likely a single item causing the failure so try and bypass one thing at a time. A third system would really help find fault point. Sounds painful but you need to isolate things to find the problem. (and keep good notes for a truth-table of what combo's work and what fails) Sorry I don't have anything more specific, but hopefully it gives you some things to look at. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
