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From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7
Subject: Re: help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <300@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 17:28:15 EST
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.300
Posted: Mon Mar 25 17:28:15 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Mar-85 04:18:59 EST
References: <318@daemen.UUCP>
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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] User complains that uucico hangs and won't die even after a kill

Just a guess but this often happens when a process gets caught in
an open on a line with no DTR/CD or some such.

Try the following to verify: send it a kill and then unplug the
line and plug in a Null modem which has DTR jumpered (or maybe
just dial the modem from a plain terminal.)
See if it doesn't instantly upon connect act as if the kill
was heard.

General fix, I dunno, could try wrapping the open with a
alarm() but even that might not get through.

Behavior like this can also occur if the line is ^S'd.

No combination of stty > /dev/ttyxx will work because it will hang
when the shell tries to open.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

P.S. It is also possible you have hardware problems but not likely.