linux ssh never shuts down fix release?

[Pekka Savola]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 carl at bl.echidna.id.au wrote:
> If I OpenSSH v2 to our RH loonucks boxes, and start a daemon
> process (in this case, SNPd, but that's not relevant), I can
> then not disconnect.  ssh just hangs after I
> attempt to log out.  As above, it's a known problem, I believe it's
> fixed in -current, but I haven't had time to play with it yet to
> see if it is or not.

Do you run SNPd with like 'SNPd &' or does it fork?

I had this same problem with forking 'radvd'.  It turned out that it
didn't give up /dev/std{in,out,err} when forking (ouch!), and ssh sessions
would not terminate.

Bugfixed the daemon, and all was well :-)

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Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
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Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords