On Thursday 30 July 2009 14:54:04 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:42, Anne Wilson<cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > > Occasionally I ssh into my server to check something, and if it needs the > > gui I use 'ssh -X'. Until recently there was no problem. Exiting simply > > dropped me back to my local konsole. Lately, though, the shutdown seems > > to hang, and I have to close the session. Any thoughts? > > This usually happens when you have a background process connected to > the tty used by your SSH session. > > This usually happens when you restart a daemon ("service xxx restart" > or "/etc/init.d/xxx restart") and the script or the program does not > detach itself from the tty, which it should do if it is a proper > daemon. > > You can use "ps -f" (before you close the session) to see which > processes are attached to your tty, after that, if you log out the > session and it hangs, you can look into those programs that were > running on your tty and see if they are causing that. > > See also: http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.10 > > If you want to force disconnection of the SSH session without having > to close the terminal or window, you can type <Return> then ~. (tilde > followed by dot), this will terminate the SSH client process. > Very helpful, thanks Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090730/91e11920/attachment-0005.sig>