Try changing the motd and saving the file. It'll reload. The log messages suggest that the server is dropping extant connection - as expected - but it immediately comes back momentarily before going away properly. The session is able to reboot due to the glitching in assertion of the listen port *more quickly* than the latency of teardown of the previous connection; so the new session-listener responds to the assertions from the old connection before the old connection has a chance to die. Of course, it *does* die (since commit 11de40c), but having that zombie reborn new session is annoying. - This is thorny. You'd think that having a session wait for its line-reader to go would be enough, but the multiple nested during/spawns creating the sessions mean that no matter how long the old session instance sticks around, a new session will appear before we're ready! ... maybe there's no way *at all* to disambiguate old/new instances without, say, a unique listener-socket identifier??