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I'm using OpenSSH's ssh and scp to back up some remote machines, roughly as follows : ssh remote-host "tar up a few dirs" scp remote-host:tarfile local-repository On the whole, as I'd expect, this works just fine. But .. sometimes the link is a bit dodgey (for lack of a more explicit term, this being a polite list :) ) Can anyone tell me how ssh and scp timeout and retry,

Ciao, sorry for the silly question, but how do you enable debugging in xapian? I'm using xapian-tpcsrc and would like it to print debugging info (connections, queries, etc). I'm configuring xapian 1.2.8 on OSX with "./configure --enable-debug-verbose", then $ export XAPIAN_DEBUG_FLAGS=-1 $ export XAPIAN_DEBUG_LOG=test.log $ sudo xapian-tcpsrv /path/to/db --port 972 Starting

Hi there Is it possible to configure ssh so that a session can continue/recover after a change of IP? I have a number of static IP dialup accounts and there is no problem using these because when my dialup connection timesout and later reconnects, it gets the same IP and so any existing ssh sessions are unaffected. However, these accounts with static IP's are metered (i.e. expensive ;-).