Re: [gentoo-user] Keep alive within SSH session

[Adam Carter]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:

> I am not sure of the correct approach to achieve a prolonged remote
> debugging
> session through SSH and avoid the SSH session timing out.
>
> This is what I try to achieve:
>
> I login into a router with SSH from my PC.  Then I can run certain
> commands to
> start and monitor a debugging session in the router.  However, if I leave
> alone the SSH session, it will soon time out.
>

Have you checked the router config for a session timeout? Eg on a Cisco you
may have something like;

ssh timeout 30

Often setting this to 0 will disable the timeout, but RTFM.