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What happens to running processes when I lose a remote connection to a *nix box?
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Mar 15, 20269243 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I occasionally lose my remote SSH connection to my VPS. I use for long-running processes, but am wondering what happens to the processes I had running aside from those run within a session if I lose the connection to the box. When I re-establish a connection to the box, what happened to the bash an…
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Normally the processes will terminate upon disconnection, but the old SSH sessions could either be waiting to timeout, or they could have hung upon exit, due to a race condition. You should probably terminate the old sessions, although you don't nec…
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