On 16.09-14:24, Tim Bandy wrote:
>     Christoph> 
>     Christoph> I want to restart named9, running on a NetBSD-1.6.1
>     Christoph> machine by doing:
>     Christoph> 
>     Christoph>  # ssh remote.machine "/etc/rc.d/named9 restart"
>     Christoph> 
>     Christoph> This basically works but the problem is, the ssh
>     Christoph> session never returns.
>     Christoph> 
>     Christoph> Does anyone have an idea, why this could be?
>     Christoph> 
>     Christoph> A wild guess would be, that the session looses its pty
>     Christoph> and that ssh wouldn't like that. But I also tried ssh
>     Christoph> -T, with same results.
> 
> I think that this answers your question.
> 
> http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#3.10
> 

Thanks for the hint.

It makes sense for ssh to wait until background jobs are
finished. But, named detaches from the terminal and runs
as a daemon. I wouldn't consider this a background 
process.  

Chris

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Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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