Re: 1.5.21: rxvt fails to shutdown due to ssh -f still running

[Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Michael Hoffman wrote:

> When I log out of or shutdown my Windows login session, if I had a
> background process that I started within a Win32 rxvt session, I get an
> error that rxvt00000<some other hex numbers> has not shut down. For
> example if I use ssh -f or run ssh in the background using &, this
> symptom manifests.
>
> I can also see a related symptom if I am running using a Windows
> console. When I log out of bash, the console window will stick around
> until the ssh process is killed.
>
> I would like for these console windows and hidden rxvt windows to shut
> down without further confirmation. Is there a way to do this? Or a good
> workaround?
>
> I have Googled for this problem, and while I have found other related
> problems (such as ssh-agent continuing to run) I have not found any
> solutions for this case.

"man nohup", "man setsid", in bash: "help disown".
HTH,
	Igor
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