jle@cfm.brown.edu (Jon Elion) (12/01/90)
Answering my own messages? The electronic equivalent of talking to yourself! I have solved the mystery of the system crashes when exiting SunView or OpenWindows. Our .login files all end with: echo -n "(S)unview or (O)penWindows?: " set answer=($<) if ($#answer == 0) exit switch($answer) case [sS]*: /usr/bin/sunview breaksw case [oO]*: $OPENWINHOME/bin/openwin breaksw default: exit endsw reset;reset;clear While this worked fine under SunOS 4.0.3., for some reason, the 'reset' command reproducibly crashes the system. Invoking OpenWindows or SunView directly (rather than through the .login procedure) is fine. Using the 'reset' command at any time causes an instant crash. So... for now, the 'reset' commands are gone from the .login files. They were formerly necessary to reset keyboard (rarely) and to reset the lookup table for the console (most times). Is it no longer needed? Why does it crash the system??