On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:47:19AM -0400, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:44:26AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > If I "ssh root@xxxxxxxxx" and enter "sleep 30 & exit", I don't get my > > own bash prompt back for 30 seconds, so it's definitely still a problem. > > There's no way for sshd to "know" that the connection should be closed > right away -- consider what you'd want to have happen if you ran > "(sleep 30 ; echo important_data_which_must_not_be_discarded) & exit" > instead. The server's just erring on the side of preserving data. > > Cheers, > > Nalin But the rule has been in the past when you have a program running and you exit the program is killed unless you start it with the nohup option. So ssh should allow you to exit and kill the running process. Is that not corrrect? -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
