On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Pierre Jaury <pierre@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Isn't there any buggy process attached to sshd when FireFox dies ? It seems there are 4 processes running on the remote host when I started firefox via ssh -X : han 1939 1895 0 20:28 ? 00:00:00 sshd: han@notty han 1940 1939 0 20:28 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.9/firefox han 1947 1940 0 20:28 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.9/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.9/firefox-bin han 1951 1947 6 20:28 ? 00:00:09 /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.9/firefox-bin after I closed the firefox window, there is only one process left on the remote host: han 1939 1895 0 20:28 ? 00:00:00 sshd: han@notty I am wondering why this one did not exit. Han > > ----- Reply message ----- > De : "Han" <keepsimple@xxxxxxxxx> > Date : ven., sept. 24, 2010 05:26 > Objet : x forwarding over SSH > Pour : <secureshell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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 > > >
