Linux – Closing the terminal with an open SSH session

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I closed the terminal while still being logged in to a remote server during an SSH session (I didn't exit before closing the terminal).

Could this damage the server? What consequences could there possibly be?

Best Answer

It won't damage anything just so long as you weren't running something that was making changes to the system (updates, fsck, etc).

If it was just an idle shell session nothing will be harmed.

In the future, if you need to make changes to a system that is destructive, you can use GNU Screen or tmux to keep your session running and be able to reattach to it later.

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UPDATE: For an actual answer see zero_r's answer below

This isn't an answer, but a workaround. Use screen.

When you first log in, run screen. You get another shell, run commands in that. If you're disconnected, the screen process keeps the terminal alive so that your shell and the processes it is running don't fall over. When you reconnect, run 'screen -r' to resume.

There's a bunch more to configuring and using screen, but the above should workaround your problem.

Bash – Start a VPN session using a Terminal script

I altered my command file to resemble the following:

#! /bin/bash

echo 'connecting...'
/etc/netlock/cvc -c connection:account:password

read -p "Press a key to disconnect."

echo 'disconnecting...'
/etc/netlock/cvc -d

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