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)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo about to ^] to telnet command level
about to ^] to telnet command level
(wd: /u/atbowler)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
telnet> !/bin/echo this will hang
(wd: /u/atbowler)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] echo after kill from other window
after kill from other window
(wd: /u/atbowler)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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]$
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