[GLLUG] ssh hangs on remote shutdown

[Scott Harrison]

> > 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?

It hangs on linux distributions (at least Mandrake and RedHat and
I seem to recall Debian) but not on FreeBSD 4.9.

Thanks!  Did not know about the tilde-period combination, but
when I tried it, it works great and is closer to what I was
looking for.

Scott