Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: getty..not hanging up Message-ID: <238@comcon.UUCP> Date: 5 Jan 90 14:52:00 GMT References: <196@comcon.UUCP> <226@comcon.UUCP> Organization: Computer Connection - Anchorage, Alaska Lines: 17 In article , fischer@utower.gopas.sub.org (Axel Fischer) writes: | roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: | >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. | | Hmmm, I *always* used this trick to stay online on a dialup '286 | Xenix System to get a fresh login. (saves telephon costs :-) If all you want is a fresh login, try 'exec login' (or 'exec bash -login' in my case ;-) -- _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. |