terminal hangs on solaris

[Richard E. Silverman]

Rude Yak <rudeyak at yahoo.com> writes:

> Every once in a while, my terminal session with an OpenSSH server (any
> version, up to and including 2.9p2) will hang indefinitely upon logout, ...

It's likely that when this happens, it's because you have started a background
process from that shell which has not closed its stdout/stderr streams.  sshd
waits to receive eof on the pipes to the shell's stdout/stderr before exiting,
and that can't happen until all references to those pipes are closed.

When you start a background process that you want to continue after you end
the SSH connection, be sure to redirect its stdout/stderr.

- Richard