Or you could use: 

$ nice -n 19 top -d 60

or:

$ nice -n 19 procinfo -f -n 60

to display some info while you're 
"keeping alive".

>>> Clay Fandre <clay at fandre.com> 01/20/04 10:43AM >>>
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Scot Jenkins wrote:
> could also be a firewall timing things out in between client/server.
> I have this problem with a Netgear wireless router that drops NAT'd
> connections after 6 hrs, even though they are active established
> connections.  Debian has a "ProtocolKeepAlives" option (man
ssh_config)
> which should help this although it hasn't worked so far with my
Netgear.
>
And if you aren't running debian, you can use spinner.
http://www.gnu.org/directory/sysadmin/hookup/spinner.html 


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