Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!smurf!gopnbg!tmpmbx!utower!fischer From: fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: getty..not hanging up Message-ID: Date: 3 Jan 90 02:37:24 GMT References: <196@comcon.UUCP> <226@comcon.UUCP> Reply-To: fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org Organization: Me, Myself and I (Berlin, West Germany) Lines: 28 roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: >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. >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. Hmmm, I *always* used this trick to stay online on a dialup '286 Xenix System to get a fresh login. (saves telephon costs :-) Could anyone enlighten me why it shouldn't work on all systems ? -Axel -- fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org / fischer@db0tui6.BITNET / fischer@tmpmbx.UUCP Bang-Europe : ...!{doitcr,gopnbg,tmpmbx}!utower!fischer Bang-USA : ...!uunet!unido!gopnbg!utower!fischer Too low for zero ...