X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Alan Bowler Subject: Re: Commands just hang Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 13:30:32 -0500 Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Alan Bowler wrote: > > If I am in kermit and at the command prompt and I try > to run some regular Cygwin command with an "!" like > "date", all works fine. However, if I then telnet to > a remote system, escape back to Kermit's command mode > and type "!date" it just hangs. This used to work. Well I did some more testing, and our private version of kermit has nothing to do with the problem. The same thing occurs with telnet and echo -------------------------Bash Window 2 --------------------------- oliver[500]$ telnet + telnet telnet> !/bin/echo this will work fine this will work fine telnet> open mailhost.thinkage.ca Trying 192.102.11.46... Connected to mailhost.thinkage.ca. Escape character is '^]'. Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) Kernel 2.4.18-5-2003-05-15 on an i686 login: atbowler Password: Last login: Fri Feb 3 13:22:20 from oliver.thoughts.thinkage.ca You have mail. (wd: /u/atbowler) atbowler@mailhost[1]% echo about to ^] to telnet command level about to ^] to telnet command level (wd: /u/atbowler) atbowler@mailhost[2]% telnet> !/bin/echo this will hang (wd: /u/atbowler) atbowler@mailhost[2]% echo after kill from other window after kill from other window (wd: /u/atbowler) atbowler@mailhost[3]% exit logout Connection closed by foreign host. oliver[501]$ -------------------------Bash Window 2 ----------------------------- oliver[503]$ ps + ps PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND 996 1 996 996 con 11012 12:33:12 /bin/bash I 2104 996 2104 3584 con 11012 12:49:00 /bin-oliver/rkermit I 1760 2104 2104 1760 con 11012 12:49:03 /bin-oliver/rkermit 3936 1 3936 3936 con 11012 13:16:27 /bin/bash 1856 1 1856 1856 con 11012 13:18:58 /bin/bash 2564 3936 2564 712 con 11012 13:23:34 /bin/telnet 728 2564 2564 4084 con 11012 13:25:11 /bin/echo 3284 1856 3284 396 con 11012 13:25:18 /bin/ps oliver[504]$ /bin/kill 728 + /bin/kill 728 kill: 728: Resource temporarily unavailable oliver[505]$ /bin/kill --force 728 + /bin/kill --force 728 oliver[506]$ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/