ssh/sshd question

[Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri]

Hi,

I don’t know if you solved your problem, but I had a similar issue and solved it by using “ServerAliveInterval 30” and “ServerAliveCountMax 4” in my ~/.ssh/config file. See “man ssh_config” for what this means.

Cheers,

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Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
System Developer at BILS
Uppsala University, Sweden







On 02 Aug 2014, at 02:31, William H. Magill <magill at mac.com> wrote:

> I have not been doing much work via ssh since upgrading to 10.9 (Mavericks), so while this occurrence is new to me, it may be related to the update.
> 
> I'm working between an iMac and a Mac Mini - both are running 10.9.4 and OSX Server 3.1.2
> 
> What I am encountering is -- if I have multiple windows open (any kind including multiple terminal windows)
> and leave a terminal window which I have used to ssh from the iMac to the mini, 
> for some indeterminate amount of time, I find that the SSH connection has "hung."
> 
> If I hit return a couple of times, after another brief period of time I get "broken pipe."
> 
> I assume that some sort of "inactivity" timer is in operation, but I cannot find it.
> 
> The "config file" which the man page claims to exist /etc/ssh/sshd_config does not exist on either system.
> 
> I do have a number of ssh files  in /etc which are dated pre Mavericks, and none of them have any obvious time-out parameters.
> 
> The question becomes -- Is this time out a parameter issue or a bug?
> 
> If a parmeter issue, which/where?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
> # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.93GHz - 8 GB 1067MHz] OS X 10.9.4
> # Macmini6,1 Intel Core i5 [2.5 Ghz - 4GB 1600MHz] OS X 10.9.5 OSX Server 3.1.2
> 
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> magill at mac.com
> whmagill at gmail.com
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