hung SSH on Solaris when starting Oracle

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Mike Simpson wrote:

> Another instance of OpenSSH 2.9p1 hanging on exit.  This occurs when
> connecting to a Solaris 8 box (both from other Solaris 8 hosts and
> from Linux hosts, all using OpenSSH 2.9p1).  This problem doesn't appear
> to involve active background jobs;  it is not fixed by either the
> bash fix listed in the FAQ or by zsh's "setopt HUP".  I do not see
> the hang-on-exit behavior with the "sleep 20 &; exit" test.  The
> behavior is repeatable.
>
> Specifically:
>
> (1) ssh to host
> (2) change to Oracle admin account
> (3) stop Oracle listener
> (4) start Oracle listener
> (5) exit from Oracle admin account
> (6) exit from host (hangs)
>
> No backgrounded processes show in a 'jobs' listing of either the
> original login account or the Oracle admin account.

Does "lsnrctl start < /dev/null 2>&1 >/dev/null" cause a hang?

-d

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