1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi, we can set something such that if the user has been idle for a while, it will auto disconnect. where to do so? thanks (6 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have put TMOUT=1800;export TMOUT in the /etc/profile, put it does not work, by the way the root default shell is sh. but I wana every one including root to terminate the session after setting idle for 1800 seconds. thank for the help. (1 Reply)

3. AIX

Hi all Can any one solve my problem? I want to change the default timeout setting for telnet in aix, pls help me. (1 Reply)

4. Solaris

Hi, Can someone help me how I can disable telnet timeout? I'm connecting remotely to some machines and after some time my telnet connection was closed. How can I disable this so that I'm always connected to those machines? Thanks! (2 Replies)

5. Red Hat

Hello, I've searched this forum for telnet idle timeout problem. I tried to set timeout parameters in /etc/profile readonly TMOUT=10 export TMOUT This doesn't work for Redhat kernel 2.4.35.4. It's really frustrating. Can anybody tell me what else I could try? Thanks a lot! jing (0 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hi, I have a Sun Ultra 5 desktop with Solaris 8. When I telnet/rlogin into any other host, the connection closes after few hours of inactivity. I also have another Windows box which I use rarely. But when I telnet/rlogin into the same hosts using putty, the connection stays for days without any... (5 Replies)

7. Linux

is there a way to add a timeout parameter to telnet when connecting to any IP address? like, if this IP doesn't respond within 10 seconds, abort. thanks i'm looking for something like this: telnet gaggaga.com 443 -t 10 (3 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I need help, I have the following which save in the result file ping and telnet:port test. Basically the script works but I should implement a check on ping and telnet command so that ping has 5 seconds threshold and telnet (more important) 10 seconds. Over that threshold ping and... (0 Replies)

9. HP-UX

I have telnet configured in /etc/inetd.conf as below: telnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd -b /etc/issue -n20 When i restart the service telnetd shows with only the -b option: ps -ef|grep telnetd|grep -v grep root 24397 1 0 10:42:35 pts/ta 0:00... (1 Reply)

10. AIX

Hi The telnet sessions stay as idle users. It is not getting kicked out. Please advise what could be the issue. only when we reboot the server these telnet sessions goes. Below is the current output from the server. we rebooted the server three days ago: pmut6:/> uptime 04:21PM... (8 Replies)