Telnet session terminates after inactivity 1

[SkullyWV]

Is there a way to keep a telnet session alive in AIX
I have not timed it but it looks like 15min of inactivity gets you kicked.
I have tried:
run=1
while [ $run=1 ]
do
ping -qc1 MY.IP.ADDRESS
sleep 300
done
This does not work, I still get kicked.
Any ideas?
Skully

 

[bi]

Check your .profile or any environment files it may call to see if you have a TMOUT=<# of seconds>. Also check the /etc/profile file to see if there is a TMOUT= statement there. That may be what is causing this. If it's in /etc/profile, you could probably put unset TMOUT in your .profile so it won't affect you. Or, just comment it out in /etc/profile.

 

[bi]

My mistake. putting unset TMOUT in your .profile won't work. Maybe someone else would know how to get around it if TMOUT is in the /etc/profile?

 

[pwcsa]

This is what you need to avoid time out. Add the following variable in your .profile file:

TMOUT=0;export TMOUT