SSH hangs on close with X forwarding 1

[venkman]

I find that when I quit out of an ssh connection it often hangs if I was running an X program remotely (using X forwarding), even if I long since quit out of the X program. I assume this is because ssh is waiting for a port to close that never does (sound right?). To stop the hang I hit Ctrl-C. I've noticed no bad side effects from this, but it just feels wrong. Is there a more elegant way of handling this?

-Venkman

 

[spredwood]

How do you make your ssh connection for running X sessions ?

ssh -l <user> <host> -f /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm

would fire a secure shell to host with user <user> executing xterm and releasing the console as if fired with an '&'

 

[venkman]

I don't use the &quot;-f&quot;. I like actually logging in and then deciding which X apps I'm going to use. Does it make a difference?

-Venkman

 

[venkman]

My apologies spredwood. Did not fully read your post; I thought you were recommending that I execute each individual app using the fork command. I will try your method.

-Venkman