On Friday 31 July 2009 00:35:03 Clint Dilks wrote: > This normally happens when you have a service wanting to keep a > connection open to a Terminal. Eg to display output from standard out, > or standard error. Are you by chance starting any services manually > when you see this happen ? Not at all. Yesterday, for instance, I simply fired up konqueror to check out a layout question. It was open maybe two minutes, then I shut it down and quit the ssh session - or tried to. This problem has only occurred recently - maybe for the last 2 weeks. Apart from updates nothing has been changed on the server. I'm not doing anything complex when I ssh in - it's mostly when I simply want to check something that needs root permissions (no, I don't log in as root ;-) - it's not permitted ). For user-level I have permanent mounts to my /home and a data directory. 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/20090731/959a1d3f/attachment-0005.sig>