Re: [TEST FIX] Re: SSH Hangs in 2.5.59 and 2.5.55 but not 2.4.x,

[David Ford <david+cert@blue-labs.org>]

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:
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>>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.
>>    
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>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.
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>-tony
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