Stewart, Ssh clients hold the connection open so long as there is something using it, in this case a forwarded port. There's no way that the client could exit without causing the forwarded port to close, too.
Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of S. I. Becker > Sent: 01 February 2006 11:15 > To: 'Financial Systems & Economic Analytics'; [email protected] > Subject: Re: SSh-agent not dying after vnc viewer > exit/logoff/logout/disconnect > > Something that I've noticed is that if you log out of the ssh > session with > VNC still active, the ssh session stays open until the VNC is > closed. This > seems to happen with any tunnelled port - you can log out of > the ssh session > but it will not close completely until the connection using > that port exits. > Therefore, using a ssh shell that simply waits a minute or so > and then exits > might assist here. > > The above was all with ssh under cygwin/windows so whether > this will work on > Linux I don't know, but I hope it will be of some help. > > Stewart > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Weatherall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'Financial Systems & Economic Analytics'" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:10 AM > Subject: RE: SSh-agent not dying after vnc viewer > exit/logoff/logout/disconnect > > > > Joe, > > > > SSH is a separate system to VNC. The two are not related. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Financial > >> Systems & Economic Analytics > >> Sent: 01 February 2006 05:37 > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: SSh-agent not dying after vnc viewer > >> exit/logoff/logout/disconnect > >> > >> I could use a little help. > >> > >> I am running VNC 4.1 on a linux RHEL4 machine using xinetd. I have > >> found that the ssh-agent starts each time I log into the > server, but > >> does not die/exit when I logout, logoff, or disconnect. > >> > >> I have read the mailing lists and googled for several hours > >> but can not > >> find the setting in the vnc documents or the way to call a > exit script > >> when the service stops. Can any one help me get ssh-agent to > >> exit when > >> I quit the viewer? > >> > >> Thank you > >> joe > >> _______________________________________________ > >> VNC-List mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> To remove yourself from the list visit: > >> http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > [email protected] > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > [email protected] > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
