SSH hangs on exit

[Paul Howarth]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 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.

Try "disown -a" before exiting the shell and see if that helps.

Paul.