I manually create a ssh tunnel to use mutt through with imap. When I accidentally
close the tunnel, but mutt still has an open connection through it, ssh tells me
something like "waiting for connection to close on 143". As soon as I close mutt, the
tunnel closes. Your milage may vary. ;)
Cory
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:37:20AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I've got my fetchmail initiation a SSH tunnel as it's preconnect
> command. On the end of it is a 'sleep 20' directive, so the tunnel
> stays open for 20 seconds while fetchmail is fetching.
>
> If fetchmail is still fetching when the 20 seconds is up, does the
> tunnel close on it, or does SSH realize there are bits in the tunnel
> and stays open until its dry?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
> PS: I noticed a few folks downloaded linux-2.4.3.tar.gz from EUGLUG.
> So I wgot linux-2.4.4.tar.gz and put it in the EUGLUG kernel
> repository: http://www.euglug.org/kernel/
