Jonathan Underwood <j.underwood <at> open.ac.uk> writes: > > 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. > Well, you've redirected the output, but how about the *input*? i.e. are you doing (on bash, anyway): $ nohup process < /dev/null > output.log 2>&1 & If you don't redirect the input as well, the shell won't realize it doesn't have a console to work with. HTH, Tim
