[16047] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.2.8: netscape (infoagents locker)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne R LaVin)
Wed Jul 29 12:31:35 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:31:32 EDT
From: Anne R LaVin <lavin@MIT.EDU>
System name: hitsuji.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.2.8 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
What were you trying to do?
run netscape, in the background, from the "infoagents" locker
with the command "netscape &"
What's wrong:
It hangs, trying to do tty output to send me a message
about an upcoming version change. When I bring it to the
foreground, it displays the text message, but something
about the way the script is written does not allow me to
put the thing back in the background (i.e. it doesn't listen
to a ^Z.) I suppose this could be something wrong with my
shell, but I have few shell customizations, and am using
/bin/athena/tcsh, and everything else seems fine...
Just for fun, I tried it *again* and now it doesn't give me
that text message any more, it must check somehow for my having
seen it. (Yes, indeed, there it is in .sw_messages.) Now it
behaves normally, but it's behavior that first time is ugly.
I can duplicate the behavior by removing the nsmotr.blah line from
.sw_messages. If I run it that first time in the foreground (no &)
then it works just fine, and I can ^Z it and bg it; it's only if I
start it in the background that first time that it acts as described
above.
What should have happened:
I'd like the script to let me stop the process and put it in the
background so I can have my prompt back, that first time I'm sent the
message. :)
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
