Re: Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

2007-12-05 Thread Jesse Molina
I'm using netcat to listen for Avaya phone system call logs. Thanks for the advice. I'll check that out and see if it could be something that I might use. Bob Proulx wrote: Jesse Molina wrote: Netcat has strange issues about wanting stdin -- it won't run backgrounded without being fed ta

Re: Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Jesse Molina wrote: > Netcat has strange issues about wanting stdin -- it won't run > backgrounded without being fed tail -f /dev/null. I wonder if it > isn't the problem here. I had discounted it since I redirected both > stdin and stdout to the logfile. I have had problems with netcat before.

Re: Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

2007-12-05 Thread Jesse Molina
Hmmm... I'm using 'lsof -d 0-255' and I don't see any FDs related to the subshell, the tail, or the NETCAT processes. I don't know what this shell is waiting on, though I'm sure it's one of these processes. As soon as I kill them off, the shell releases. I want to go back to the fact tha

Re: Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

2007-12-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jesse Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Netcat has strange issues about wanting stdin -- it won't run backgrounded > without being fed tail -f /dev/null. I wonder if it isn't the problem here. > I had discounted it since I redirected both stdin and stdout to the logfile. What's wrong with

Re: Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

2007-12-05 Thread Jesse Molina
Thank you for the explanation about the descriptors. That's very insightful. However, your suggested fix did not help the situation. I think that was even something that I had tried the day before. Netcat has strange issues about wanting stdin -- it won't run backgrounded without being fed t

Re: Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

2007-12-05 Thread Paul Jarc
Jesse Molina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, on the two troubled systems, my interactive shell will > hang after I've disowned a process. On one other system, everything > works as expected. I expect that a disowned process should not hang > logout -- disowned means disowned. The termina

Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

2007-12-05 Thread Jesse Molina
Hi! I am having a problem on two Linux systems and then not on two others. Slightly differnt OS and bash in each case. I'm puzzled. Basically, on the two troubled systems, my interactive shell will hang after I've disowned a process. On one other system, everything works as expected. I ex