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Subject:  Re: SSH server does not kill child processes upon logout on Windows Server 2003 install
Date:  Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:00:49 -0400
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on Wed Mar 07 2007, "Bruno Antunes" <sardaukar.siet-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
>
> I have installed cygwin yesterday, March 6th 2007 and I have it
> running with perfect logging and even public key authentication. So
> far, so good.
>
> Today, after an initial trial use, I started getting "could not
> allocate pty" errors, that can be explained by the huge amount of
> ssh.exe and scp.exe processes left running on the server – they don't
> take up CPU but they do take up RAM (about 2/3MB each). What can be
> the problem? Restarting the service does no good – basically the
> processes aren't killed when the user logs off. This can, forseeably
> cause problems. The user running the service is the one created by
> ssh-server-config.

I have the same problem.  So far there's been no response from this
list.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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