Sending Signal to remote process

Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com
Wed Jan 24 04:24:41 AEDT 2018


On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, Thomas Güttler wrote:
> 
> I want ssh to forward the SIGTERM signal to the remote command.
> 
> Example:
>    ssh root at localhost /root/print-signal.py
> 
> Get PID of ssh:
>     ps aux| grep print-signal
> 
> Kill the matching ssh process:
>     kill pid-of-ssh

You might be able to get around it by running:

$ ssh root at localhost '/root/print-signal.py </dev/null >/dev/null 2>/dev/null'

I recall I used that in another context.  I also recall the `ssh' 
command not returning the prompt.  Does that allso happen to you?


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian



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