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- Path: sparky!uunet!westmx!rodkey
- From: rodkey@westmont.EDU (John Rodkey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Question: What happens when a Terminal is powered-down?
- Summary: AIX 3.1.6 - how does it handle powering off a terminal on a NTS?
- Keywords: aix sigterm runaway pseudoterminals dynix UniVerse powerdown
- Message-ID: <319@westmx.westmont.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:24:12 GMT
- Organization: Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
- Lines: 96
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- I have this setup: RS/6000 mod 530, AIX 3.1.6, UniVerse 5.4, DYNIX v. 1??
- Access to the RS/6000 from terminals is through Emulex and Lantronix
- Network terminal servers. This problem occurs on both, so I have made
- the assumption that the NTSs are not the weak link.
-
- The terminals (wyse 50's, PCs w/ emulation, etc.) are accessing the
- RS/6000 in order to run the Library public access catalog, which is one
- of the options in a ksh menu program.
- DYNIX, the catalog program, is using the UniVerse implementation of
- Pick, which is in turn layered over AIX.
-
- Here's the problem: when the users are done with the public catalog,
- they sometimes turn off the terminal, which creates a 'cpu-hog' on our
- system iff the user was using DYNIX at the time the plug was pulled.
-
- By CPU hog, I mean that its number of cpu clicks on ps -ef, C column is
- between 20 and 120 (normally a cpu-intensive process shows about 12
- clicks - but if there are 20 hogs, each may have only 9, for example).
-
- Clearly I need to get to the bottom of this problem. Killing processes
- is repetitive, timewasting, etc.
-
- SO! The question is: what signals are issued to processes associated
- with a pty when the terminal powers down? How does one handle those
- signals to avoid the problem described? How does ksh handle these differently
- than sh?
-
- ----------------------------------------------
- fragments of typical code follow....
- ----------------------------------------------
- ~dynixlogin/.profile
- # ...set path, etc deleted...
- cat <<TTYS
- Please select your terminal type from the following list:"
- 0) Log out
- 1) Wyse or Adds Viewpoint
- 2) VT100
- TTYS
- echo -n " Your choice? ":
- read ttype
- case "$ttype" in
- 0) logout ;;
- 1) TERM=wy30 ; export TERM ;;
- 2) TERM=vt100 ; export TERM ;;
- *) TERM=$ttype ;;
- esac
- /usr/local/bin/libmenu
- logout
- exit
- /usr/local/bin/libmenu
-
- trap "exit" 1
-
- optn=999
- until [ "$optn" -eq 0 ]
- do
- sleep 1
- optn=999
- until [ "$optn" -ge 0 -a "$optn" -le 5 ]
- do
- clear
- cat <<MENU
- 1) ROGER (Voskuyl Library On-line Catalog)
- 2) ... other options deleted ...
-
- MENU
- echo -n "\n Please enter the option number you desire( 1-5 ) : "
- read optn
- optn=`echo $optn | tr -cd 12345`
- if [ -z "$optn" ]
- then
- optn=999
- fi
- done
- case "$optn" in
- 1 ) clear
- Roger ;;
- 2 ) ... other options deleted ...
- esac
-
- done
- exit
-
- ~dynixlogin/Roger
- #!/bin/sh
- # we use sh here, because uv had problems with ksh
-
- uv MM # this calls up UniVerse, and goes into the main menu
- ---------------------------------------
- Anyone care to shed light on this subject?
- --
- ----------==========[[[[[[[[[[]]]]]]]]]]==========----------
- John Rodkey, Director of Academic Computing,
- Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
- rodkey@westmont.EDU, uunet!westmx!rodkey
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