Subject: rsh timeout in pine

From: [email-masked] (Kwan Hoo Lau)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 18:07:37 GMT

I use pine 3.95 on my linux system with Secure Shell (as a replacement to rsh)
but ssh takes a long time for its RSA authentication.  Pine figures that rsh
has timed out, when it (ssh) actually hasn't.  Is there a user-defined option
that will allow pine to wait longer?

Kwan Hoo Lauh
[email-masked]

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:44:51 +0100 (BST)

Assuming that a systemwide pine.conf has been created and set up on your
system...

Edit this file and look (down the bottom) for:

# Sets the time in seconds that Pine will attempt to open a network
# connection.  The default is 30, the minimum is 5, and the maximum is
# system defined (typically 75).
tcp-open-timeout=30

# Sets the time in seconds that Pine will attempt to open a UNIX remote
# shell connection.  The default is 15, min is 5, and max is unlimited.
# Zero disables rsh altogether.
rsh-open-timeout=30

(The values may be different on your system).

Change the values appropriately.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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