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From: gerry@swift.cs.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: logout after "nohup ..... &"
Message-ID: <7490.2741396e@swift.cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 14 Nov 90 12:32:45 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin
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If I type:
	 "nohup <any command, e.g. sleep 100000> &"
and then logout every user (except locksmiths) is locked out of the
system i.e. they cannot make a telnet connection nor use the login
command. Howvere, they can login over a direct line and also by using
crp -on ... -login ... command.  Sometimes the problem goes away
but mostly you have to kill the nohupped process to free up the system.
We run 10.2. Can anybody help?

					Gerry O'Brien,
					Dept. of Computer Science,
					Trinity College Dublin,
					Ireland

					gerry@cs.tcd.ie