-- Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Chris Thompson Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:35 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: rsh times out after 5 min Mike Sphar writes > There are free/open-source ssh utilities for windows, like putty. Yes, yes, but ... It seems quite inappropriate to lean on William to convert from rsh to ssh until we know what the cause of his 5-minute cutoff is. For all we know, it will apply just as much to ssh as to rsh. If it's an "idle"-TCP-connection detector somewhere, it probably will. -- Chris Thompson Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk