[1350] in Athena Bugs
6.0C RT xterm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Thu Nov 10 16:33:46 1988
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 88 16:33:06 EST
From: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
I started up an xterm, and it appeared in this state:
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athena% Reset tty pgrp from 24690 to 24503
/mit/jfc > Reset tty pgrp from 24503 to 24690
cReset tty pgrp from 24690 to 24503
ccReset tty pgrp from 24503 to 24690
Reset tty pgrp from 24690 to 24503
cReset tty pgrp from 24503 to 24690
etc.....
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% ps -axl
10080018258 24503 1 0 3 0 68e 142 6 pt_tty I p1 0:00 -sh (c)
1008001 0 24684 24673 0 1 0 6f7 246 56 selwai I p1 0:00 xterm
10080012931 24690 24684 0 3 0 6a4 158 8 pt_tty I p1 0:00 -sh (c)
It looks like someone's old shell didn't die. I found the X screensaver active
before logging on (i.e. the login process after the last person logged out
didn't time out). There have been infrequent reports to consulting about
similar incidents with programs continuing to output into a window after the
owner logs out (so that the next person to log in sees random messages in his
window, along with his own work; the most common program seems to be a shell
script to alternate printing out a fortune and sleeping for a few minutes).
--John Carr
