ssh broken pipe

You could check the SSH logs but don't count on it logging anything helpful. It likely logs to /var/log/messages.

If this is due to your network connection dropping dead every so often you could turn off TCPKeepAlive in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

TCPKeepAlive no

And then restart sshd.

Turn on verbose logging while you are editing sshd_config:

LogLevel VERBOSE

Verbose logging really should be the default. Without it sshd doesn't even log what key was used for authentication.

@sednet:

You could check the SSH logs but don't count on it logging anything helpful. It likely logs to /var/log/messages.

If this is due to your network connection dropping dead every so often you could turn off TCPKeepAlive in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

TCPKeepAlive no

And then restart sshd.

Turn on verbose logging while you are editing sshd_config:

LogLevel VERBOSE

Verbose logging really should be the default. Without it sshd doesn't even log what key was used for authentication.
Thanks! I hope this helps.

@nthvision:

@sednet:

You could check the SSH logs but don't count on it logging anything helpful. It likely logs to /var/log/messages.

If this is due to your network connection dropping dead every so often you could turn off TCPKeepAlive in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

TCPKeepAlive no

And then restart sshd.

Turn on verbose logging while you are editing sshd_config:

LogLevel VERBOSE

Verbose logging really should be the default. Without it sshd doesn't even log what key was used for authentication.
Thanks! I hope this helps.

Unfortunately this did not help, does anyone else have any suggestions? trouble shooting tips?

Are you behind some sort of NAT or stateful firewall that might have a (really) short session timeout? Are you using an ssh port that isn't 22?

Might be interesting to run Wireshark on the local end when this happens.