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Posted on June 4, 2013

I’m getting this quite often within Terminal on OSX, then it kicks me off the server, and i need to login again… i think it’s probably the timeout, but it’ happens really quick is there any way i can increase it?



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the worst day is today. my website is down. cannot do anything. 1 miilion issue. and problem. I also face this problem.

You can also configure the server side in the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config edit these params: ClientAliveInterval ClientAliveCountMax

None of these options seem to be available on nginx server?

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