Dealing with dial-up lines

[Barry Shein]

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.4 of Mon Mar 23 1987 on bucsd (berkeley-unix)



>When a person dials in over a modem line, and then hangs up without
>logging off, the computer should know enough to kill those processes,
>right? (It should get a hangup signal?). Could someone suggest why on
>my 4.3 system, peoples jobs would be just staying around, and the next
>person that dials in to the same modem will come in in the middle of a
>session?
>
>					Xev Gittler

(have you ever tried anonymous login to hstbme? it's, um, interesting,
in a minimalist kind of way.)

One of two things, probably the former. Either you don't have the bits
CLEAR in the tty mux line in the config file (flags 0x00, see the man
page) or you're not wired up correctly and the mux never
sees/hears/feels the hangup, or both.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University