Hi,

we have our shell sessions timing out after every 5 minutes , if there is no activity.

Is there any way i can keep my session for longer than 5 minutes or untill i end the session.

may be any dummy program that runs background and doesn't take up lot of resources or any ideas.

Thanks for your time
Thomas.

Perhaps you have $TMOUT set. Check the man page for your shell.

Just type more and your shell will survive.

have a command running that constantly produces output like
e.g. watch, sar, vmstat, or a one-line while loop

Thanks for your suggestions,

But when i try vmstat to run for every 4 minutes for next 8 hrs in & , i couldn't keep the shell session from timing out, I think this is probably set by our admin as a standard, i just hate to re -login everytime it sessions out.

when you said one line while loop i didn't get it. .. can you please elaborate on this..


Thomas.

A standard one liner for keeping sessions alive:
You can fiddle around with the length of the sleep command depending on the timeout interval that you have set.