[ale] ssh stalls (OT - cygwin)

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 11:08, David Corbin wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>This now appears to be a problem with 'unflushed buffers' on stdout somewhere 
>>between ruby and cygwin ssh.  Are there any ssh parameters/configuration 
>>options that say "do not buffer output"?
>>
> 
> 
> I think it is more when a program is started and has an open descriptor
> to the tty you are connected to.  This is what I see typically
> 
> local# ssh remote
> remote# programd &
> remote# exit
> 
> This is where it hangs.
> To break this sometimes I can do '~.' and sometimes that fails.  I'm not
> sure why ssh would refuse my command to disconnect via that command. 
> When this happens my last resort is to simply use the kill command to
> kill my ssh client on the local box.

I wasn't paying much attention to this thread, but if you simply want to 
run a process on another box via ssh you should use:

ssh -f remote command

ssh will return and not wait for the command to complete.


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey