pdsh hangs on creating a daemon process about pdsh HOT 3 CLOSED

What I assume is happening is that the server you are starting with pdsh
is not closing stdout/stderr/stdin, so the ssh connection started by pdsh
remains open and pdsh does not exit.

You can test this by running 

 ssh -2 -a -x -l<user> <host> <server-start>

and verify that ssh does not exit.

Another thing you can try is wrapping your daemon in a script that first
closes stdin/stderr/stdout, e.g. maybe something like this?

 #!/bin/bash
 exec >/dev/null 2>&1
 exec </dev/null
 /etc/init.d/server start


If this is the case, then the hiphop server is failing to close all fds when it
daemonizes I would guess.

Assuming this was not a bug and that the above solution worked.

yep it is an issue with hiphop, it doesnt close fds.
thanks
Param