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PMIE hangs the shell

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Subject: PMIE hangs the shell
From: "David Douthitt" <DDouthitt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:11:26 -0600
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Running pmie hangs the shell (when using a verbose option like -W).

For example:

pmie -W -h host -c config

...runs fine, but then a ^C returns to the shell, which gives a prompt and then 
is unresponsive to any and all keypresses.  A scan of the ps shows that pmie is 
still running with the -W option.  This pmie process will shutdown cleanly with 
a kill command; the shell requires kill -9 (if that even works).

I suspect that pmie is taking stdin and stdout and not releasing them, and not 
stopping on a ^C, but I can't determine if that is the case.

In my case, these are the stats:

Shell is pdksh (5.2.14)
System is Red Hat Linux 7.3 with the SGI Installer Disk used, and the default 
SGI kernel running (2.4.18-4SGI_XFS_1.1).
The hardware is a Compaq Deskpro 2000 Pentium MMX, 64M RAM
pmcd is v2.2.2


David Douthitt
CUNA & Affiliates
UNIX Systems Administrator
ddouthitt@xxxxxxxxx






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