There's a debian specific flag for ssh called 'ServerTimeOut' which allows ssh to give up if no data from the server is received for the specified number of seconds. Does anybody know the equivalent option for centos-ssh? thanks, grace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090511/23565000/attachment-0004.html>