On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:32:17AM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote: > This ugly thing is a shell script to detect availability of > the -q option for 'nc': debian and suse based distros need this > flag to ensure the remote nc will exit on EOF, so it will go away > when we close the tunnel. If it doesn't go away, a useless 'nc' > process is left sitting on the remote host. > > Fedora's 'nc' doesn't have this option, so we can't blindly pass -q. > More info here: I don't really like this approach. Shouldn't it be sufficient to just explicit SIGKILL the ssh client, rather than relying on the exit-on-EOF behaviour of nc. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list