Unrelated (was RE: so-called-hang-on-exit)

[Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com]

Add -n to the ssh command line - see if that fixes it.

Nico
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Garff [mailto:egarff at omniture.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 11:15 AM
> To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: so-called-hang-on-exit
> 
> 
> That may be, but it only "hangs" when run from cron, if I run it
> manually it executes fine, could cron be causing the "hang".  
> Also, if I
> used Protocol 1 it completes normally.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 18:13, Frank Cusack wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:32:33PM -0600, Eric Garff wrote:
> > > This isn't an actual reply to any one person, but here is 
> my experience:
> > > 
> > > I have tested both the patches by Jani Jaakkol and Frank 
> Cusack (Frank's
> > > I tried both the pty and non-pty changes).  I still get 
> the hang, here
> > > is my setup.
> > > 
> > > This is entered as a cronjob on one server to run every 
> 15 minutes:
> > > 
> > > /home/httpd/bin/cache/glb/gTest 
> >>/home/httpd/bin/cache/glb/gTest.log
> > > 2>>/home/httpd/bin/cache/glb/gTest.log
> > > 
> > >   here are the guts of the script:
> > > 	/usr/local/bin/ssh hostname /bin/ls /some/dir | /usr/bin/wc -l ;
> > > /bin/ls /some/other/dir | /usr/bin/wc -l ; /bin/ls 
> /some/other/dir |
> > > /usr/bin/wc -l"
> > > 
> > > The script is actually a php script that does a number of 
> other things
> > > before it executes the ssh (database to grab hostnames, 
> etc.), but that
> > > is how the ssh portion pans out.  After executing the 
> command it then
> > > starts a 20 second timer, and if the ssh session is still 
> alive, it
> > > kills it.  Also, if I run the script by hand (not crond) 
> it completes
> > > just fine (no hang).
> > > 
> > > Any ideas?  Your time is MUCH appreciated.
> > 
> > You're doing something wrong.  Your ssh command is not an example of
> > the hang-on-exit problem.
> > 
> > /fc
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