Hanging On sftp-server

From: David Busby (busby_at_edoceo.com)
Date: 05/27/05

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    List,
       On this one server I have the sftp-server connections hang on forever! I'm connecting with a dsa key to the machine
    and sftp-ing with the ftp plugin for jedit. I have another machine that I sftp to that doesn't have this problem, same
    version of ssh/ssl, configs are the same too. No firewalls, I don't see anything in the log output (debug1) that I see
    as a problem except that the connection isn't closed, but I have the config set with:

    ClientAliveInterval 60
    ClientAliveCountMax 3

    Shouldn't that kill it after 3 minutes? The sftp connections sometimes hang on for days! The standard SSH connections
    with PuTTY don't have this issue, they die as expected.

    hydrogen root # uname -a
    Linux hydrogen 2.6.10 #2 SMP Tue Apr 19 11:49:56 PDT 2005 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
    hydrogen root # ssh -V
    OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004
    hydrogen root #

    /djb

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