Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcdchg!ddsw1!karl From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: getty..not hanging up Summary: Not necessarially, and shouldn't happen anyway! Message-ID: <1989Dec29.151924.6810@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 29 Dec 89 15:19:24 GMT References: <196@comcon.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@mcs.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. - Mundelein, IL Lines: 37 In article fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org writes: >tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes: > >>What would cause getty to *sometimes* not hang up the phne when a user >>logs off? Note, most of the time it works fine and the user hits ctrl-d >>and the phone connection is broken, ie dtr is being handled. But right >>now it isn't hanging up, when a user hits ctrl-d they get another login: >>and have to hangup manually at thier end. >>The wierd thing is I am not changing anything. >>Any ideas? > >This happens always when you start a process in the background. >E.g. if you send a mail to someone and the mailer processes the mail >in the background and you quickly logout than you get a fresh login >message, 'cause there is a process still running. > >You could also do this with a simple "tail -f .cshrc &" >If you start it and logs off you will always get a fresh login message >until you kill the process. Not necessarially. I have had it happen for NO explainable reason. There certainly isn't anything running in the background here for me right now, yet I still have the problem. There's something ELSE strange going on there..... Besides, what if you do a "nohup xxxxxxx &" then disconnect? That >should< work ok, and let you disconnect the line. If it doesn't then I'd say that something is broken; that's the intent of nohup! -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, !ddsw1!karl) Public Access Data Line: [+1 708 566-8911], Voice: [+1 708 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"