From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student)) Subject: Re: BUGS (minor) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:24:14 GMT
In article <1ag4k8INNbv5@cobra.cs.ubc.ca> edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) writes:
>I have been running version 0.96c since it came out, and have found it
>to be very stable. I noticed a few small but consistent bugs in it,
>but wanted to wait until I upgraded to see if they vanished. Today I
>upgraded to 0.98, and they're still present, so here we go:
>
>1) I have a terminal attached to /dev/ttys3 which I use for most of
>my work (I guess I just like an ascii interface :). Approximately
>every two hours, my shell gets terminated. Usually I'm running
>screen, which apparently receives a SIGHUP, and detaches itself, so
>it's not a problem except that I have to log back in and reattach. If
>it's just a shell, then I get logged out and jobs running under it
>(such as kermit) get immediately terminated. If it is just sitting at
>the login prompt, login appears to terminate similarly, so over time
>the prompts (and /etc/issue reissued) will scroll up the screen. I
>have no reason to suspect that my cable is faulty, as otherwise the
>connection works flawlessly.
Which shell are you running? I heard old bash'es had
similar problem, new one should be OK.
Just a thought it was ...
Rafal
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>Brian Edmonds (MSc CompSci) edmonds@cs.ubc.ca
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