Re: ssh going zombie

First 0.97e is an extremely old version of openssh or you are confusing
it with openssl. Current openssh versions are in the 3.9 - 4.0 range.

Secondly when you run the unstable branch of a distribution you risk
this type of behavior, since you are in essence the beta tester. This
would apply to branches such as debian unstable, fedora and gentoo
unstable.

I dont see any bugs related to this on bugs.debian.org and that is who
you should be talking with since every distirbution has thier own set of
home grown patches most of the packages they maintain and sometimes they
dont play well together.  

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 07:56 +0100, Peter Childs wrote:
>     Using sshd under Debian Unstable Openssh  0.9.7e
>
>     When winscp disconnects from our server the scp process goes zombie 
> and the ssh process hogs the processor on the server.  This only seams 
> to happern with winscp  and not with  scp or  ssh  under  linux. If the 
> subprocess is removed from the sshd config file the a sub sshd process 
> goes zombie instead and the calling sshd process hogs the processor.
>
>     I'm think it may have somthing to do with the way winscp talks to 
> sshd , but the winscp people seam to think this is a problem with sshd. 
> I get this feeling this is going to be a problem nobody has a clue on 
> and wishes to blame the other party.
>
>
> Peter Childs
>