keep wireless awake

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 16:04 -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > The default SSH daemon behavior is to turn on TCPKeepAlive
> > (see /etc/ssh/sshd_config.  With this option on, SSH connections will
> > drop if the remote client is down or unreachable.  I suspect you have
> > this option set to "No" in which case the SSH sessions will stay around
> > forever, unless explicitly closed by one end of the connection.
> >   
> Sorry to hijack the thread but this is related. Is there an easy way to 
> close one of these connections that is forever open from the client end? 
> Normally I have to kill the task. ctrl+c doesn't do the trick.

Not sure I understand.  Are you trying to kill the sshd process on the
server?  If so, you can send the underlying forked shell a HUP signal.
e.g.

kill -HUP <pid>
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