X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: =?windows-1252?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= Subject: Re: SSH Connection Still Active Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:08:31 -0600 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <20060203214911.64091.qmail@web26114.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) In-Reply-To: <20060203214911.64091.qmail@web26114.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> OpenPGP: url=ldap://keyserver.pgp.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com O. Olson wrote: > Hi, > I don=92t know much about networking =96 so if there is > something obvious with this, let me know.=20 > When I ssh from Cygwin to another machine, and then > close the Cygwin window without logging out, my > connection to the machine still remains active =96 by > this second part I mean that after I have closed the > ssh window if I =93netstat=94 =96 I see the state of the > connection as =93ESTABLISHED=94. It still remains the same > state even after many hours.=20 If the other computer is running Windows (non server) then yes, it's normal. The connection will stay like that until rebooted. If the other computer is running Unix (choose your flavor: Linux/Solaris/HP-UX/etc.) or Windows Server x then it's not normal, it shou= ld stay for a while and then close. There's parameters that you can set in /etc/sshd_config that will allow the server to detect stale connections: ClientAliveInterval 60 ClientAliveCountMax 3 I have not tried it. --=20 Ren=E9 Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/