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Usually if a program is running in Terminal.app, when you try to close it it will give you a warning "Do you want to close this Window?" This happens to almost everything that I have tried, including more, man, bash, etc. It gives you this warning even if you have suspended jobs.

The only exception is ssh. I can ssh into another machine and accidentally click the close button and Terminal.app would be happy to close it for me. Are there ways to change this behavior? Thanks.

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You need to explicitly remove SSH from the permitted-to-close processes list in Terminal's preferences:

Terminal preferences

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oh... that's easy, thanks! I don't understand this default setting though... – ceiling cat Mar 8 '11 at 2:46
It's the default presumably because most people consider that list of programs to be like shells, and killing shells without prompting is desirable to a number of users. But that does mean users have to beware about closing a terminal while there are remote processes running, since Terminal only knows about local processes. A number of ssh users typically start a screen session to keep the remote processes alive, so closing the ssh connection has no adverse consequences in this regard. – Chris Page Oct 25 '11 at 12:22
If you think the default should be different, as always, consider telling Apple. You can send a bug report (requires a free developer account) developer.apple.com/bugreporter or use apple.com/feedback/macosx.html . – Chris Page Oct 25 '11 at 12:23
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