How can I break out of ssh when it locks?

Posted by Wayne Werner on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Wayne Werner
Published on 2011-03-11T16:22:22Z Indexed on 2011/03/12 0:18 UTC
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Hi,

I frequently ssh into my box at home from school, but usually when I change classes and my computer suspends, the pipe will be broken. However, ssh simply locks up - ^c, ^z and ^d have no effect.

It's annoying to have to restart my terminal, and even more annoying to have to close and re-create a new screen window.

So my question, is there an easy way to make ssh die properly (i.e. when the pipe fails "normally" it will exit with a message about a broken pipe)? Or do I have to figure out what the PID is and manually kill it?

Thanks!

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