How do I exit a dead SSH session?

How do I exit a dead SSH session?

Two ways:

1. closing the shell session will usually exit, for example: with the shell builtin command, exit , followed by Enter , or.
2. in the case where you have a bad connection and the shell is unresponsive, hit the Enter key, then type ~. and ssh should immediately close and return you to your command prompt.

How do I keep an ssh session open?

Keeping SSH connections alive

1. Start PuTTY.
2. Load your connection session.
3. In the Category pane, click Connection.
4. Under Sending of null packets to keep session active, in the Seconds between keepalives, type 240.
5. In the Category pane, click Session.
6. Click Save.
7. Connect to your account and monitor the connection.

What happens when my SSH connection is dead?

They will get killed, but not necessarily immediately. It depends on how long it takes for the SSH daemon to decide that your connection is dead. What follows is a longer explanation that will help you understand how it actually works.

How to keep processes running after ending SSH session?

There are two major programs you can use to maintain programs and terminal state over multiple ssh connections. They are screen (the incumbent, but unfortunately unmaintained. Apparently being actively developed now) and tmux (newer, actively maintained).

How to move an already running process to screen?

Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home. “reptyr PID” will grab the process with id PID and attach it to your current terminal.

How to move processes from one terminal to another?

Just open a new Terminal window, SSH to your remote server, find the running processes ID, and safely move them inside the screen or tmux sessions, and exit from the SSH session. For further details, refer the links attached at the end of this tutorial. That’s all for now folks.