Hi, suspending a job in bash, and putting it into the foreground again sometimes causes the process to die for spurious reasons. I have not investigated this further, but maybe someone is interested in debugging it before I find the time to do so. First thing would be to make a reliable test case, maybe a small C program which sends appropriate signals in rabid order to a specific task. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]