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Re: Pty problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcus Nilsson)
Fri Jun 23 11:20:55 1995
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 15:36:26 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Marcus Nilsson <marcus@kuai.se>
To: Alan Cox <iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0sP80X-00013hC@iiit.swan.ac.uk>
On Fri, 23 Jun 1995, Alan Cox wrote:
> > soon as one user has logged out, leaving a pty free, then you can telnet
> > or rlogin in on that pty, then it hangs again on the same pty(in this
> > case ttyp4). All this suggests that one pty hangs.
> >
>
> Sounds to me more like a shell problem and people getting programs stuck.
> sugalaxy.swan.ac.uk had this problem for ages until we switched people to
> a shell that did hangups right.
But shouldn't telnetd and rlogind then just fail to open the pty and
then choose the next one?
If this is the problem, then what shell should we be using?, we are using
bash for now.
Is there something I can check when the problem occurs to verify that
this really is the problem?
/Marcus Nilsson, Kuai Scandinavia AB.
