Are you using SSH 2.0.13? This was a known problem in versions before
2.0.13
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Gregor Mosheh
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Systems Admin, Humboldt Internet
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Mark Parker wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying out sshd2 on a Solaris 7 box and am having a bit of
> trouble. My workstation is not on the local net and I have dialup isdn
> which I get charged by the hour for so I close the link when I'm not
> working. Often, I'll forget to logout of my ssh shells first and the
> clients will kill themselves after so long of being out of contact
> with the server. The server, however, doesn't it's side of things and
> so I'm left with an ever increasing number of ghost sshd2
> processes. I've tried restarting sshd2 with KeepAlive = yes but this
> doesn't seem to make a difference. Any ideas on how to have these
> ghost processes die automatically? I'd like to avoid writing a cron
> job that culls them at night. I'd really like to find a way for the
> sshd2 server to figure out that the clients are dead and clean up
> gracefully.
>
> -mark
>
