[GLLUG] ssh hangs on remote shutdown

[Ben Pfaff]

Scott Harrison <harris41 at msu.edu> writes:

> An ongoing phenomenon I have noticed is:
> 
> [invokingshell %] ssh user at remotemachine
> [remotemachine %] shutdown -r +2 &
> [remotemachine %] exit (or Ctrl-D)
> 
> The ssh session hangs on me, not returning me to the invoking shell.

I'm not certain why it's hanging, but you do know that you can
kill the client by typing <enter> followed by tilde (~) followed
by period (.), right?
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