January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 by Tapioke

How to Keep Your SSH Sessions Alive

(Episode #39 – CLI Monday: How to Keep Your SSH Sessions Alive)

Create a file locally ~/.ssh/config
~/.ssh/config
Shell

Host * ServerAliveInterval 60

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Host *
ServerAliveInterval 60
Restart any ssh sessions

$ cat ~/.ssh/config
Host *
  ServerAliveInterval 60

$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config
$ chown user:group ~/.ssh/config

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$ cat ~/.ssh/config

Host *

ServerAliveInterval 60

$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config

$ chown user:group ~/.ssh/config