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Subject: Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out
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Danny Howard wrote:

> This last problem has started to happen only lately.
>
> I log in from my FreeBSD workstation, on an xterm, via ssh to a remote 
> machine running 4.9.  I often sudo -s.  I'm using tcsh.  Lately, I 
> leave the session for a while and come back and the session is locked 
> up.  I can't exit or anything.  I kill the xterm and restart.  I 
> reconnect to the box, and there's no hanging session ... any advice? 

To clarify,

This happens only when the session is idle.
I CAN ~. out of the ssh connection, and get my xterm back.

-d

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