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From: romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: English decaying (really VM follies)
Message-ID: <137@pyrnj.uucp>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 20:02:31 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 20:02:31 1985
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Summary: Not _that_ funny

> ...And one that I was lucky enough to witness:
> 
> 09:23:16 MSG FROM FREDUSER : HELP!  I CAN'T LOG OFF!
> 
> I'm serious - all these actually occured!

Little quirks in VM can keep people from logging off or on.  I used to
use a system where this happened once a month or so:  User tries to log
out; can't.  Operator's FORCE command does not do the trick, either.
Systems programmers get called at home.  Systems programmers play with
memory.  User finally gets logged off.  In the mean time, various CP
commands contradict each other regarding whether the user is really on
the system or off.  Very nasty...
-- 
Romain Kang, Pyramid Technology Corporation

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