SSH hangs on exit

[Jonathan Underwood]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> Check out the "screen" command. I use that for my game servers. A 
> typical invocation:
> 
> screen -dmS my-game-server script-to-start-game
> 
> This creates a detached screen session named "my-game-server" running 
> the script "script-to-start-game". You can reattach to it later to view 
> any output. I put this in an initscript so that the game servers start 
> at boot time.
> 

Yep, I use screen a lot. Unfortunately I use a number of systems which 
are running RHEL 3, which has a broken version of screen which doesn't 
detach properly, though. Hence using nohup.