Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: getty..not hanging up Summary: Not here... Message-ID: <226@comcon.UUCP> Date: 29 Dec 89 14:35:25 GMT References: <196@comcon.UUCP> Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska Lines: 25 In article , fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer) writes: > tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes: > [about a getty not always hanging up on a logout] > > This happens always when you start a process in the background. > [...] > 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. (ob disclaimer... Tim is my sysadmin;-) I just tried this exact procedure. (tail -f .bashrc &, running a bash shell) ps reported a shell and a tail in the background. I typed 'bye' and the system dropped carrier. I don't think it's specific to bash shell, though, because the Bourne shell would act the same way, and _sometimes_, the system would not hang up the modem. On the bright side, it doesn't seem to be happening as frequently now:-) -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |