kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow) (07/10/89)
I've started using the NN newsreader posted recently and I think its great but I've been having this strange problem. I normally read the news through an rlogin session to the host that contains all of the news and news software ( I don't use NNTP ). Sometimes my connection is abruptly closed. It usually happens about half way through the display of a new article. In other words, I've finished reading one article and I press the spacebar to see the next article and as the new article is being displayed my terminal beeps and prints "Connection Closed" just like when you normally terminate an rlogin session. Now the weird part, the first few times this happened the connection just closed, but lately the entire computer reboots! Other users report the same thing. This has never happened before with any other program. Just what does NN do that other programs don't do? Does it put the terminal in some weird mode or something? I know, since when can some program running on another machine make another computer crash through an rlogin session - but believe me it happens! Has anybody else seen anything remotely similar? If it makes any difference the system that crashes is a Convergent Technologies Miniframe running CTIX 3.2 (SYSV.2 w/ BSD 4.2 and 4.3 extensions). I'd really hate to have to stop using NN. John Kellow kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu
maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (07/11/89)
kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow) writes:
\I've started using the NN newsreader posted recently and I think its
\great but I've been having this strange problem. I normally read the
\news through an rlogin session to the host that contains all of the
\news and news software ( I don't use NNTP ). Sometimes my connection
\is abruptly closed. It usually happens about half way through the display
\of a new article. [...]
Check your tty and terminal modes WHILE NN IS BUSY, i.e. from some other
tty type:
stty everything > /dev/tty01
or
stty -a > /dev/tty01
if /dev/tty01 is the one your using NN on.
Interesting things are parity and the `nohang/clocal' bit.
If your terminal has a local setup key, you might find out easily how it
thinks to communicate with the host.
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