bug report

Markus Friedl markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Thu May 24 20:51:50 EST 2001


On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 10:49:54PM -0400, mugz wrote:
> 
> I'm always a bit slow to report bugs i see, figuing someone else will
> report it and that it will eventually get fixed. This one has been
> somewhat of a problem for a while now. I run Linux Slackware -current and
> just upgraded to OpenSSH 2.9p1, but I have noticed this same bug on every
> platform and OS running OpenSSH.
> 
> If a user logs in and starts any kind of background process such as
> "screen" "bnc" "mud" "eggdrop" etc, the console "hangs" when they log out.
> When I ssh to a shell running OpenSSH from work or from home, start a
> screen or a bnc and then exit with that process running, I have to go to
> another console and manually kill my connection locally. If i then log
> back into the same shell and type: last -5 myuserid, it shows me as
> "still logged in" from that previous session. You can test this easily by
> logging in using ssh and typing:
> 
> sleep 200 &
> exit

does
	sleep 1234 < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&
	exit
work?



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