SSH hangs

[Markus Schönhaber]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> "exit" to close the session, it just seems to hang. I can only finally 
> cut it off by opening another terminal and using kill on the "local" ssh 
> process.

Or you could use ssh's escapes. To force ssh to disconnect, type
~.
Escapes are only interpreted as such at the beginning of a line, so it
may be necessary to first type <RETURN> and then ~.

Regards
  mks