Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: hacknews Subject: getty vs kill Message-ID: <3554@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 12:06:44 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3554 Posted: Thu Feb 16 12:06:44 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Feb-84 12:06:44 EST Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 Fixed a humiliating bug in getty(8): it was ignoring SIGTERM, so as to be consistent with the conventions used by shutdown(1), but wasn't resetting the signal properly before it execed login. The result was that practically everything on the system was ignoring SIGTERM. Blush. This is why we've had to use "kill -9" so frequently of late... Note that this takes effect only on logins after the getty change. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry