RE: Script not terminating properly

Tony Langdon wrote:
> At 05:30 PM 11/3/2005, you wrote:
> 
>> So the --stop part of the script successfully completes, then the
>> rsync, then the --start part to start the services again, then it
>> hangs and never hands the shell prompt back to the backup server.
>> 
>> unfortunatley I tried your suggestion and it still hangs.........
> 
> Hmm notice you're using SSH remotely.  Are you putting the service in
> the background yourself, or is it a proper daemon?  Reason I'm asking

I'm not consciously backgrounding anything.  I wanted each process to
successfully complete before the next runs.  

But from what I am seeing everything works except for the "fi" :
"
/etc/init.d/openexchange start
echo `date`
echo "all done"
# it hangs just after this
fi

"
At this point on the backup server I ctrl-C and then the main script
completes.

The annoying thing is that is I shut down all the services that would
normally get shut down with this script and then pass the --start argument
to it, it works fine, starts the services and hands the prompt back...

> is I'm wondering if you're encountering that OpenSSH annoyance where
> the session can hang onm closing if a process is started in the
> background during the session.  There's an explanation of exactly
> what the issue is on the OpenSSH site if I recall...     

Not sure if this answers your question.....:

root@mail:~/scripts # ps ax | grep -i ssh
 3825 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
24160 ?        Ss     0:01 sshd: root@pts/0
13048 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: root@notty
13164 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep -i ssh


Regards Geoff Scott