can't cleanly log out of ssh

[colet at code-energy.com (Cole Tuininga)]

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 12:14 -0500, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've got this server at work, just one server, which whenever I log  
> out from ssh'ing into, my terminal hangs, and I have to close the  
> window and start a new one. For the life of me I can't figure out why  
> that system, and only that one, does it.

This can be caused by two main things that I can think of.

1) The remote shell doesn't want to exit.  This can happen especially if
you have a backgrounded job that's still attached to the terminal.

2) If there is something else still using the connection.  For instance,
if you ssh -X (enable X forwarding) to a remote server, and then kick
off a gvim to display locally, that window won't close cleanly until the
gvim is closed as well.

HTH.

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Cole Tuininga
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