Isn't there any buggy process attached to sshd when FireFox dies ? Le jeudi 23 septembre 2010 Ã 20:26 -0700, Han a Ãcrit : > Hi, > > I am using SSH to do X forwarding and saw an interesting problem: for > some applications, even when I closed the application itself, the SSH > session is still not closed. For other applications, SSH sessions > closed whenever I closed the application. > > For example, if I do: > > ssh -X <host> xclock > > then I close the xclock app, the ssh session exits. > > but if I do: > > ssh -X <host> firefox > > then I close the firefox app, the ssh session does not exit. > > In the latter case, I can see the corresponding sshd process is still > running at <host>. Is such behavior caused by the application? any > insights are appreciated. > > my SSH version is: > OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-6ubuntu2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g > > thanks > Han
