Re: how to kill child process?

[Sebastian Miele]

Me:

> vapnik spaknik <vapniks@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> >> ssh -S ~/.ssh/%C -N -f remotehost &
> >> rsync -au -e "ssh -S ~/.ssh/%C remotehost" remotehost:file1
> backupdir/file1
> >> rsync -au -e "ssh -S ~/.ssh/%C remotehost" remotehost:file2
> backupdir/file2
> >
> > and finally, find the pid and kill the ssh session:
> >
> >> ps -e|grep ssh
> >> kill <PID>
>
> This does not answer your exact question, but such behavior can be
> acheived very automatically by putting something like the following into
> ~/.ssh/config:
>
>   ControlMaster auto
>   ControlPath ~/.ssh/socket/%C
>   ControlPersist 5
>
> This automatically creates master processes.


Or not, if there currently already is one, in which case that one is used.

And the respective master
> processes automatically terminate after 5 seconds.
>

After 5 seconds of being without at slave.

>