This is the mail archive of the
cygwin
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: Bash process hangs around forever after ssh disconnect
* Michael Hipp (Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:32:54 -0600)
> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > In all likelihood you do NOT want sshd to kill your shell because
> > you loose connection for a while. Let me repeat: you do NOT want
> > that.
>
> Really? Should I call Red Hat, SUSE, Debian and Ubuntu and all the
> others and tell them they've been doing it wrong all these years?
> That's *exactly* how every Linux I've ever used works.
>
> > You want the ability to reconnect to that session once the physical
> > connection is reestablished. "screen" gives you that ability.
>
> I know about "screen". I use it regularly. But screen is off-topic. Unless
> there is some way screen can re-connect to a dangling bash session; I thought
> screen could only re-connect to screen. If it has that ability I'd like to be
> educated to it.
Screen is /not/ off-topic because it is the solution to your problem. If
you are asking for a solution where you cannot use screen because it is
not installed or because you forgot to run it before starting a shell
then you should say so.
Let's assume you could not run or forgot to run screen: a quick Google
search for "cygwin bash ssh zombie sessions" leads to the conclusion
that you're not the first one who noticed that. Well, probably you
should use screen.
Thorsten
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/