Shell timeout too short

apiou

Hi,
The shell timeout seems to be around 2 minutes of inactivity.
This is really short especially when configuring something and reading documentation in another window.
It' would be great to have a longer delay before disconnecting people from the server.

apiou

well, i was just logged out after 15 seconds of inactivity just before posting this message. it's not easy to work.

sean

We don't have any sort of shell timeout that would disconnect you from your SSH sessions. We're not using ClientAliveInterval in the SSH configuration at all, so it's up to your SSH client to maintain its connection.

If you add the following to ~/.ssh/config in your local home directory you should see an improvement:

ServerAliveCountMax 3
ServerAliveInterval 10

sean

Sorry about this!

I just found and corrected a problem with your account subscription that was causing our RAM quota monitor to kill your processes. That's been corrected and your SSH processes should remain running now.

If they don't, then I recommend trying the local config that I mentioned in my earlier reply. I use that and my sessions run for days 🙂

apiou

i've modified the local configuration too. Everything works now like a charm ! thx