Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 20:11:00 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ssh hanging Message-ID: <20010522201059.B8247@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010522193058.B4807@monster.master-link.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <20010522193058.B4807@monster.master-link.org>; from linguist-cygwin@rich-paul.net on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:30:58PM -0400 On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:30:58PM -0400, linguist-cygwin@rich-paul.net wrote: >For what it's worth, I have a (somewhat) similar problem: > >bash$ nohup ssh-agent > ~/.ssh-agent & >bash$ exit > >causes the terminal window to hang there. If I kill the term >window, ssh-agent may or may not die, but will not work. > >Latest of everything, AFAIK, and Win2K. This is to be expected, if you are using CYGWIN=tty. If you use CYGWIN=tty and running in a console window, cygwin won't allow the process to exit until the last user of the tty is gone. Possibly doing this: nohup ssh-agent > ~/.ssh-agent 2>&1 < /dev/null& may work better. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple