Keep SSH session alive [closed]

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The ssh daemon (sshd), which runs server-side, closes the connection from the server-side if the client goes silent (i.e., does not send information). To prevent connection loss, instruct the ssh client to send a sign-of-life signal to the server once in a while.

The configuration for this is in the file $HOME/.ssh/config, create the file if it does not exist (the config file must not be world-readable, so run chmod 600 ~/.ssh/config after creating the file). To send the signal every e.g. four minutes (240 seconds) to the remote host, put the following in that configuration file:

Host remotehost
    HostName remotehost.com
    ServerAliveInterval 240

To enable sending a keep-alive signal for all hosts, place the following contents in the configuration file:

Host *
    ServerAliveInterval 240

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