[Discuss] Questions about shells: Tmux, Screen, SSH and Terminator
Lincoln Bryant
lincolnb at uchicago.edu
Sun Dec 21 21:08:39 UTC 2014
For the problem of SSH timing out, there's also MOSH:
https://mosh.mit.edu/
I've yet to use it myself, but I hear quite nice things about it.
-L
On 12/21/2014 3:03 PM, Kevin Brandstatter wrote:
> http://blog.hwarf.com/2009/06/howto-set-sshd-idle-timeout.html
>
> Quick google search found that, which shows a parameter for the idle
> timeout on the remote side.
> From the man page for sshd_config
> """
> ClientAliveInterval
> Sets a timeout interval in seconds after which if no data
> has been received
> from the client, sshd(8) will send a message through the
> encrypted channel to
> request a response from the client. *The default is 0,
> indicating that these**
> ** messages will not be sent to the client*. This option
> applies to protocol ver‐
> sion 2 only.
> """
> I can only assume that means the server will do nothing to try and keep
> the connection open.
>
> -Kevin
>
> On 12/21/2014 02:59 PM, Freddy Martinez wrote:
>> The local sshd or the remote server?
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2014 2:58 PM, "Kevin Brandstatter" <icarusthecow at gmail.com
>> <mailto:icarusthecow at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I use terminator + tmux as well, and i've never really had a problem
>> with ssh sessions other than the connections timing out
>> if it sits idle for a while, but i've had that issue in just about
>> every
>> setup. Might try looking into if theres an idle timeout setting
>> for sshd
>> or something
>>
>> -Kevin
>>
>> On 12/21/2014 02:49 PM, Freddy Martinez wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I've been having a lot of issues lately with my SSH sessions (I have
>> > to maintain ~5 for 8+ hours a day with frequency having to lock /
>> > leave my work station). Here's my current setup. I use
>> Terminator and
>> > have it split with 3-4 panes and just use SSH. I don't use screen
>> > because I find that it doesn't work great with Terminator. Some
>> of my
>> > coworkers use tmux (you can launch it inside terminator) but I
>> dislike
>> > the keybindings. The advantage of tmux is that is supports
>> screen-like
>> > behavior but its actively supported. (screen isn't maintained
>> anymore
>> > AFAIK).
>> >
>> > What's your setup? Do anyone have a recommendation that isn't tmux?
>> > Ideally I'd like to use terminator + <something else>.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Freddy M
>> >
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