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From: cudcv@cu.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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Subject: Re: rlogin trouble:  Chars translated into ^D
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Date: 5 May 89 18:52:16 GMT
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felix!arcturus!dav@hplabs.hp.com (David L. Markowitz) writes:
|Your choice of work-arounds:
|...
|	2. Kill the offending process (that'll teach that frosh!)

I've seen pty's in this state after the process has finished, so I don't
think 2 always works.  It can also manifest itself as a complete inability
to rlogin to a machine (login sees ^D and goes away again).  My solution
is

	5. cd somewhere innocuous, type `script', then `reset', `exit', remove
	   the typescript file, and your pty is fixed.

Works for me, no guarantees.  On a machine with lots of people logging in
and out it's sometimes useful to nest the scripts, doing a `tty' in each
one, until you get to the line that's jammed.

Rob
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