On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:37:35PM -0400, Nicolas Williams wrote: > - ssh -n -2 host exit $(print $((RANDOM % 91)) |tee /dev/tty) ; echo $? try this instead: ssh -n localhost 'echo x; exec > /dev/null 2>&1; sleep 3; exit 5;' and the patch i sent earlier.