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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 01:41:50 -0400
From: linguist-cygwin AT rich-paul DOT net
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Subject: Re: ssh hanging
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In-Reply-To: <20010522201059.B8247@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:11:00PM -0400

tried several variations, no dice.  Even tried:

#!/bin/perl

close(STDIN);
close(STDERR);
open(STDOUT,">~/.sshagent");
system("ssh-agent");
close(STDOUT);

That was close.  Perhaps i'm getty a ctty effect, and should try
opening .sshagent with a diff filehandle before I close STDOUT.

Hmmm.


On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:11:00PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:30:58PM -0400, linguist-cygwin AT rich-paul DOT 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
> 
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