I've run into this often with a background job however .. it also hangs
when there isn't any background job. I suspect there definitely is a bug.
David
Tony Gale wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:04, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>
>>That is a problem with processes left running. I do not forward
>>connections, I do not forward X, I do not (in normal practice) leave
>>anything running. A typical thing to do is to go to each machine in a
>>cluster and look for a user activity:
>> grep "user" log/stats.readers
>> exit
>>nothing more. And every once in a while that hangs after executing the
>>logout sequence. With the patch it hasn't to date.
>>
>>That doesn't mean it's a fix, I don't see it every day, I just haven't
>>seen it in a few days since I put in the patch.
>>
>>
>
>The ssh hang on exit "problem" is a policy of the ssh coders. It'll
>happen when you have a background job still running when you exit, which
>is still connected to the terminal.
>
>As I said, it's an ssh policy issue (which many people disagree with)
>and not a bug.
>
>-tony
>
>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 07 2003 - 22:00:14 EST