Sshd not disconnecting clients before shutdown

Question

I setup an Arch server virtual machine and am having some problems.  When I tell the vm to shutdown over SSH, it shutdowns fine but never closes the shh connection.  I had to add add the servertimeout option otherwise my terminal would freeze.  I tried the same thing with a Ubuntu 9.04 server and it does close the shh connection.  Anything I should check for in the sshd_config?

Answer 1

This seems to work:
#!/bin/bash
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
. /etc/conf.d/sshd
PID=`cat /var/run/sshd.pid 2>/dev/null`
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting Secure Shell Daemon"
[ -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key ] || { /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key >/dev/null; }
[ -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key ] || { /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t rsa -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key >/dev/null; }
[ -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key ] || { /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -t dsa -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key >/dev/null; }
[ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/sbin/sshd $SSHD_ARGS
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
add_daemon sshd
stat_done
fi
stop)
stat_busy "Stopping Secure Shell Daemon"
[ ! -z "$PID" ] && kill $PID &> /dev/null
if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then
stat_fail
else
rm_daemon sshd
# remove all running sshd processes
runlevel | grep "[06]" > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
printhl "Killing all sshd processes"
killall -q sshd &> /dev/null
fi
stat_done
fi
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
exit 0
Only one minor problem, the killall also kills the script shutting down the sshd daemon.  Does anyone know a way around this?
Also, why isn't something like this the default?