Hmmm. I have to rephrase this problem description after further testing.
I warn you. It's hard to get your hands on (at least for me!)
The problem i have is:
Because my wife (caroline) uses my window session to read her
email i use the following script 'caroline' so that she can run
applications like mutt from her own account:
caroline:
su - caroline
Now for the sequence of events that make mutt go wild:
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1) In my own X-session my wife starts xterm (which is of course
owned by my id) and in that xterm she runs the script 'caroline'
and logs into her own account.
2) Then she starts mutt.
3) Then she kills the xterm with the cross button!!
Now xterm window terminates but mutt keeps running like crazy (88% cpu)!!!
Note that it's something related to mutt. When she starts pine or elm
this does NOT happen at all and everything is nicely deleted from the
process list.
Another wierd thing.... It ONLY happens if i run the 'su - caroline'
via that script! If i start an xterm and manually run the 'su - caroline'
and then mutt, all IS nicely deleted after killingthe xterm.
Now in that script i changed the 'su - caroline' into
'rlogin -l caroline localhost' which works fine.
I cant get a grip on why mutt is getting wild..?!?
jan
