Message-ID: <20090202185346.GA7943@slingshot.co.nz>
Date: 2009-02-02T18:53:46Z
From: Patrick Connolly
Subject: Tunnelling X for R graphics
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901311510410.7667@parser.ilovebacon.org>
On Sat, 31-Jan-2009 at 03:16PM -0800, Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
[....]
> The problem, and maybe I'm just whining here, is that because the
> data sets are large this takes several minutes where I'm basically just
> sitting around. This happens once every other day as the VPN software I'm
> using "times out" after about 24 hours and thus the ssh session dies.
Is it possible to do anything about the VPN software? I use tightVNC
to do something similar and it doesn't time out after 24 hours. Even
closing the desktop machine down altogether does not lose the ssh
connexion. Restarting the desktop a week later will still find the X
session without loss.
HTH
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