FreeBSD and filePro weirdness

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 5:04 PM
Subject: RE: FreeBSD and filePro weirdness

> I can duplicate this behavior at will... It has happened since two changes
> were made on my systems.
...
> clear up the old filePro app. I have *never* seen this behavior until 
> about
> 6 months ago... when I did two things... put filePro 5.6 on the remote
> system... which I am always accessing through FacetWin across a WAN. The
> same version filePro accessed the same way on my LAN *never* exhibits this
> behavior though.

In our case I can pretty completely eliminate terminal emulator issues or 
net connections.
It happens on a variety of different emulators.
(note: I haven't tried the console yet!)
It happens on the wan (which is a T1 that has been solid for a couple 
years.)
It hppens on the other wan (which is verizon fios)
It happens on the lan, and the lan uses a different nic and a different 
switch than the wan.

Besides, other machines share all the same net connections wan and lan, and 
besides all that,
The very same box, same fp binaries (5.0.14 linux in our case), same 
termpcap, same everything but the data, processing & menus, doesn't have the 
problem.

It's a puzzle.

Next thing I'm about to try right now atually, is putting a trap command in 
the parent shell that tries to trap all signals and merely display the 
signal it receives. This won't work for -9 but *shrug* what's left? running 
the parent shell in strace? Or really the parent of that actually. the 
instance of the shell that runs the script itself probably never knows 
anything except it received signal or maybe not even that if it was a -9.
But the parent of that might know something about why one of it's children 
was killed.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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