getty..not hanging up

[Karl Denninger]

In article <NSSGK+ at utower.gopas.sub.org> fischer at utower.gopas.sub.org writes:
>tim at comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes:
>
>>What would cause getty to *sometimes* not hang up the phne when a user
>>logs off?  Note, most of the time it works fine and the user hits ctrl-d
>>and the phone connection is broken, ie dtr is being handled.  But right
>>now it isn't hanging up, when a user hits ctrl-d they get another login:
>>and have to hangup manually at thier end.  
>>The wierd thing is I am not changing anything.
>>Any ideas?
>
>This happens always when you start a process in the background.
>E.g. if you send a mail to someone and the mailer processes the mail
>in the background and you quickly logout than you get a fresh login
>message, 'cause there is a process still running.
>
>You could also do this with a simple "tail -f .cshrc &"
>If you start it and logs off you will always get a fresh login message
>until you kill the process.

Not necessarially.

I have had it happen for NO explainable reason.  There certainly isn't
anything running in the background here for me right now, yet I still have
the problem.

There's something ELSE strange going on there.....

Besides, what if you do a "nohup xxxxxxx &" then disconnect?  That >should<
work ok, and let you disconnect the line.  If it doesn't then I'd say that
something is broken; that's the intent of nohup!

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