Re: openssh refusing to shut if X has been used.

On 2008-01-23, Stuart Barkley <stuartb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 at 22:09 -0500, Richard E. Silverman wrote:

... is it possible that the X program is spawning some background job that
persists?

I've also noticed this recently with gnome programs. In my case it is
dbus-launch which is hanging around keeping the tty open. So far I've
just been living with the problem.

You can try redirecting stdin, stdout and stderr and see if that helps, eg
"xterm >/dev/null </dev/null 2>&1".

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