On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 12:58 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > At the same time I can open a new SSH session and do whatevery I like. > But it seems that running a command which takes time to complete > hangs. --- Try killing off those rsyncs and try it again. You need to provide some other type of error messages. Use strace. tail /var/log/messages and paste it in your reply. Even if you don't see anything in it that does not mean someone else can't. You may need a reboot. John