Re: Lots of bash processes SOLVED

Worik Stanton <[email protected]> Sat, 10 May 2014 19:07:36 +1200

Newsgroups	gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
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On 29/04/14 14:28, Daniel Beer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:51:49PM +1200, Worik Stanton wrote:
>> I have a VPS at Digital Ocean I use for various little fun things.
>>
>> But I have a problem:  I am seeing 'bash' processes multiply like
>> rabbits.  No bash process I start ever stops unless I specifically exit.
>>  I would have expected a bash process to die when the attached terminal
>> goes away, by default.  But clearly not.
>>
>> Is there a way I can change bash's default behaviour so that it dies
>> with the terminal it is attached to?
> 
> This is the default behaviour -- the loss of a terminal causes SIGHUP to
> be delivered to all attached processes, and bash's default response to
> SIGHUP is to exit.
> 
> Are these processes lying around from old SSH sessions which have gone
> dead? If that's the case, you should set TCP keep-alive on the VPS to
> periodically poke old TCP connections.
> 

Exactly.  It was old ssh sessions.

Using tmux on the VPS and reconnecting with 'tmux attach' has fixed my
problem.

cheers
W

> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 


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