I use the screen command to solve this problem. It is not what you are asking for, rather a workaround. On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 08:25:49PM -0400, Goulet, Richard wrote: > All, > > I'm having to deal with a VPN timeout on TCP/telnet connections > which 80% of the time are not a problem, but 20% of the time it causes > disaster. The Problem is that the VPN times out any such connection > that does not have data traveling on it for more than 30 minutes. Not > that onerous, except when your running rman on a fairly large database. > SO does anyone know how to make rman work like imp/exp's feedback > mechanism?? That little dot certainly has saved my bacon more than I > care to think. > > Dick Goulet > Senior Oracle DBA > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l