Re: CVS hangs on exit when using SSH

[Ken Williams]

Hi Wayne,

I don't thing that's it.  ssh only honors escape characters at a login 
session, not when executing remote commands.  ssh(1) says:

     When the user's identity has been accepted by the server, the server
     either executes the given command, or logs into the machine and 
gives the
     user a normal shell on the remote machine.  All communication with 
the
     remote command or shell will be automatically encrypted.

     If a pseudo-terminal has been allocated (normal login session), the 
user
     may use the escape characters noted below.

     If no pseudo tty has been allocated, the session is transparent and 
can
     be used to reliably transfer binary data.

I've used ssh and cvs in this configuration to transfer arbitrary binary 
data before.

 -Ken

On Monday, December 2, 2002, at 12:46  PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:

> Just a guess, have you disabled the escape sequence in SSH?
>
> --- Ken Williams <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've seen this problem several times in various CVS and SSH mailing
> > lists, but none of the threads I've found seem to end in a solution.
> >
> > I'm using CVS 1.10 `Halibut' as a client, connecting to CVS 1.11.2 on a
> >
> > server via SSH.  Both the client and server are running OpenSSH_3.4p1,
> > SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090605f.  The client is a Mac OS X
> > 10.1.5 machine and the server is running Red Hat Linux release 8.0.
> >
> > When I issue any CVS command (update, checkout, diff, etc.), the
> > connection hangs indefinitely when the command is [nearly?] completed.
> >
> > It happens reliably on this client, but never happens on another client
> >
> > with identical software versions.
> >
> > When I set CVS_RSH to a shell script that does 'exec ssh -vvv "$@"', I
> > get the following output (I hit Ctrl-C after about 30 seconds):