I have been running hotwire-ssh (revision 1299) for a while. Today someone pointed out to me that it seems to connect many times to the remove sshd server when running a connection. Is this a known issue?

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. run "tail -f /var/log/secure" on remote host 2. ssh to it from hotwire (hotwire-ssh) from another machine

What is the expected output? plain ssh gives on login:

Aug 21 13:50:05 myserver sshd[5239]: Accepted password for testuser from 10.6.0.22 port 46075 ssh2 Aug 21 13:50:05 myserver sshd[5239]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user testuser by (uid=0)

and then on logout: Aug 21 13:52:44 myserver sshd[5239]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user testuser

What do you see instead? hotwire ssh gives before logging in and after logging out lots of these:

Aug 21 14:00:14 myserver sshd[5550]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22 Aug 21 14:00:18 myserver sshd[5553]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22 Aug 21 14:00:23 myserver sshd[5556]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22 Aug 21 14:00:27 myserver sshd[5558]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22 Aug 21 14:00:31 myserver sshd[5562]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22 Aug 21 14:01:24 myserver sshd[5588]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22 Aug 21 14:01:28 myserver sshd[5591]: Connection closed by 10.6.0.22

Why does hotwire ssh repeatedly connect to the ssh server?

I opened a ticket for this against hotssh:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=549250