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

[lukash]

On Sun, 2016-07-17 at 18:47 +0100, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 17 Jul 2016 14:14:42 you wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 17:35:55 +0100
> > Mick wrote -
> >
> > > On Sunday 17 Jul 2016 16:20:30 Ralf wrote:
> > > > On 07/17/2016 04:02 PM, Mick 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.=
> >
> > What you need is expect or Expect or pexpect depending on your base
> > scripting language preference - tcl, perl, or python.
> >
> > Dave F
>
> Thank you Dave!  I'm emerging dev-tcltk/expect as I type
> this.  Hopefully the 
> learning curve won't be too steep.  ;-)

You may also wanna try the ServerAliveInterval option in your client's
ssh config. It sends some keepalive data to the server every X seconds,
sounds like what you need.