On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, chris wrote: > Hi all. > > I have a simple feature request for the devs and maintainers; when > forking into the background using the -f optarg one would normally have > to consult the process table of whatever OS they're running to find the > process. Would you consider adding another optarg to write the PID out > to stdout or a pidfile? This would be rather helpful in several > usecases. You can retrieve this if you configure a control socket: $ ssh -S /tmp/sock -nNf host $ ssh -S /tmp/sock -O check host Master running (pid=3509649) $ ssh -S /tmp/sock -O exit host Exit request sent. -d _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
