ssh: how How to terminate remotely called "tail -f" when connection is closed?

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Dmitry Frank

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ssh: how to terminate remotely called "tail -f" when connection is closed

I just noticed that if I execute ssh user@remote_host tail -f /some/file , then tail -f /some/file keeps running on the remote_host even if ssh connection is closed!

So, after several connects and disconnects, number of running tail -f /some/file grows. How to actually terminate tail -f when ssh connection is closed?

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