How can I close an ssh tunnel?

Question

I have opened an ssh tunnel with lucas-MacBook-Pro:~ donbeo$ ssh -D 8080 -f -C -q -N [email protected]

How can I close it now?

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 02 '20 at 20:09

8

Find the ssh tunnel's process id running on a specific port:

ps aux | grep <port number>

and kill the process:

kill -9 <process id>

edited Jul 02 '20 at 20:09

jaume

answered Jul 02 '20 at 17:58

Gabriel Gates

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '15 at 14:40

2

You can kill the ssh process like others with

kill -9 $PID

You can find ssh session process ID with

pgrep ssh

answered Oct 15 '15 at 14:40

Quanlong

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 15 '15 at 14:34

0

You have to type

~.

to exit/close the ssh connection. I think

exit

also works.

answered Oct 15 '15 at 14:34

matthias

can you post the full command? The connection is working in background – Donbeo Oct 15 '15 at 14:36
Ah sorry, background process... So you have to check for the pid and use 'kill -9 id'. – matthias Oct 15 '15 at 14:39

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