Le Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:09:37 +0100
Christoph Kaegi a ecrit :
> I'am restarting named on a remote system by connecting via 
> ssh and authenticating through a certain private key.
> The authorized_keys file on the remote host is setup as to 
> call '/etc/rc.d/named restart' every time this key authenticates.
> 
> The call looks like this:
> 
> # ssh -n -t -i /root/.ssh/restartDNSid remotesystem
> 
> This works, when called directly from the console. When
> called from cron, named gets restarted, but ssh never
> returns.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue, what the problem could be?
> 
> I already tried with/without -t and -n, but the behaviour 
> was the same.
> I also checked the openssh FAQ but don't think that 
> "3.10 - Hangs when exiting ssh" applies.

Have you tried redirecting *input* from /dev/null?

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