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Why does my remote process still run after killing an ssh session?
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Mar 15, 202612004 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
I'm tailing a remote logfile by running this command in a local shell: When I ctrl-c out of this command, it seems that the ctrl-c kills the local ssh process and leaves my tail running on the remote machine. I was under the impression that breaking the connection would send a hangup signal (since …
Error Output
ssh remotemachine tail -100f /path/to/error_file
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Fix for: Why does my remote process still run after killing an ssh session?
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This behaviour stems from the lack of a controlling terminal for the running process. When the remote process does not have a controlling terminal, the remote ssh process handling your session is unable to kill the command, which is left hanging in …
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