No Name » serveraliveinterval http://blog.schoash.com Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:18:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Keeping SSH Session Alive http://blog.schoash.com/2009/12/03/keeping-ssh-session-alive/ http://blog.schoash.com/2009/12/03/keeping-ssh-session-alive/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:42:31 +0000 blog http://blog.schoash.com/?p=177 Preventing a SSH connection from dropping while you are inactive or waiting for a script to finish is quite easy. If you are on a Ubuntu or Debian client you only have to add one line to

/etc/ssh/ssh_config
ServerAliveInterval 5

In OSX the config file for ssh can be found in /etc/ssh_config.

Actually this line sends a keep-alive packet to the server every 5 seconds. You can change the interval as you like, but for me it works best with 5 seconds.

Alternatively you can also use the parameter when connecting to the remote host. The command looks like this:

ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=10

]]> http://blog.schoash.com/2009/12/03/keeping-ssh-session-alive/feed/ 0