SSH hangs on exit

Jonathan Underwood j.underwood at open.ac.uk
Mon Nov 14 15:16:51 UTC 2005


Mike Klinke wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 November 2005 10:01, Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> 
>>Life is good with SSH but when I'm done and type 'exit' to leave
>>my session it's hung on the client side and I have to kill it.
>> Anyone ever seen this before?  Client is FC3, doesn't matter
>>what OS the server is, RHEL, FC3, FC4 and RH7.3???
> 
> 
> This is a FAQ..
> 
> http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.10

I am actually seeing this behaviour if I start a process using nohup on 
the server, with all output redirected to files. Surely then, ssh should 
exit cleanly? (but it doesn't). I've  never been sure if this is a bug.

Jonathan




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