ssh hanging

Tue May 22 17:12:00 GMT 2001

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
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