On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:

> Is there a way to keep telnet from timing out a session?  I'm running
> some really long processes remotely, which spend long periods of time
> not sending anything over the terminal, and my sessions are getting
> bombed while I wait.
> 

This is a shell problem. Your autologout environment variable is probably
set.

You might also want to look into using screen.

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