[sf-lug] server reboot

[Alex Kleider]

On 2016-12-31 12:04, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Alex Kleider (akleider at sonic.net):
> 
>> I've been playing around with a Raspberry Pi as a server on my local
>> network.
>> 
>> It's headless and I use ssh to log on.
>> 
>> When ever I want to do a reboot (# shutdown -r now), rather than the
>> connection being lost and my local prompt appearing (as happens when
>> I do an 'exit,') my terminal window simply freezes and I have to
>> close it forcibly and open another.
>> 
>> This doesn't seem to me to be the way it should be done.
>> Has any one any suggestions as to the 'right way'?
> 
> Press in sequence:
> 
>    Enter ~ .
> 
> There's a whole set of these 'escape sequences' built into OpenSSH
> (into /usr/bin/ssh, I _think_).  To see the full list while you have a
> /usr/bin/ssh session running , press
> 
>    Enter ~ ?
> 
> You should see:
> 
>   Supported escape sequences:
>     ~.  - terminate connection (and any multiplexed sessions)
>     ~B  - send a BREAK to the remote system
>     ~C  - open a command line
>     ~R  - Request rekey (SSH protocol 2 only)
>     ~^Z - suspend ssh
>     ~#  - list forwarded connections
>     ~&  - background ssh (when waiting for connections to terminate)
>     ~?  - this message
>     ~~  - send the escape character by typing it twice
>   (Note that escapes are only recognized immediately after newline.)
> 
> Have fun with your Pi.


Yes indeed!  And thank you, once again.  Just that for which I was 
looking!!
a