ssh session not closing child processes if terminated

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Sometimes not all child processes of an ssh session get terminated correctly in case the parent process is terminated
  • This happens if script is used

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • util-linux
  • util-linux-ng

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