Sending Signal to remote process

Thomas Güttler guettliml at thomas-guettler.de
Wed Jan 24 19:41:49 AEDT 2018



Am 23.01.2018 um 18:24 schrieb Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn:
> 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?

I tried this, and it did not help. I ask myself how this could help,
since the ssh does not forward the signal. Do you think closing
the streams make a difference?

Regards,
   Thomas

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