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Re: ssh processes lingering after scp

from [Darren Tucker] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: ssh processes lingering after scp
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:53:04 +1000
Susan McConnell wrote: 
We're copying a number of files, sometimes up to 3-400, using
scp called from a perl script. The command issued by the perl script is:

        my $cmd = "scp $basedir/data/$basename remote.example.com:/tmp";
        system ($cmd);


We're finding that some ssh processes, with a PPID of 1, remain after the
script has completed. "ps -ef" shows:


See: http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897

What platform is this? Normally orphaned processes will be wait()ed by init when scp exits.

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