[Discuss] Please help with a question about Bash timeout intervals

[John Byrnes]

As KB suggested, GNU Screen or tmux are both really useful for 
maintaining your session if you lose your connection.

It also might be worth trying out the Mosh remote shell 
(https://mosh.org/). This leverages SSH to make the initial connection, 
but is much more robust when dealing with timeouts and IP address / 
network changes.

All three of these packages are likely to be packaged for whatever 
distribution you use.

Best regards,

John

On 10/2/20 7:00 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 10/2/20 3:44 PM, E. William Horne wrote:
>> The work requires frequent visits to various web sites, and searches 
>> to obtain more information. Because of that, I often find that my ssh 
>> session has timed out, and that I must login again to continue working.
>>
>> Please tell me about the timeout intervals which are customary in 
>> Ubuntu Linux, in Bash, and in ssh: I need to extend them.
>
> Not an answer to your question, but a suggestion, and you might 
> already be doing this: use "screen" and you can at least resume your 
> previous session and pick up where you left off.
>
> It has a bunch of features but the minimal you need to learn to fire 
> it up and reconnect when disconnected isn't too bad...
>
> -kb
>
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