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Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 01:00 PM 1/11/00 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> >Well, if you are still having a problem with ^C (note, you must restart
> >your su shell), then it isn't caused by the login package. I tested it
> >thoroughly, and it worked in bash and tcsh.
>
> Yup, I rebooted the machine, etc, and even if I am on the
> console and SU'd to root in a kvt window under KDE, if I do
> tail -f /var/log/syslog or any kind of command, ctrl-c will not
> exit the task. Have to ctrl-z and then kill %1 to actually kill
> the job.
My experience agrees with what Ben is saying - upgrading to the
latest login package fixed it on the machine I tried it on.
(I've not tried to see if the same problem occurring when logging in
via ssh has also stopped now, though).
Thanks for the fix Ben.
bfn,
Joseph
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Joseph Heenan, Coventry, UK http://www.ping.demon.co.uk/
