Re: Disowned process hangs terminal during logout/exit

[Jesse Molina]

I'm using netcat to listen for Avaya phone system call logs.

Thanks for the advice.  I'll check that out and see if it could be 
something that I might use.



Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jesse Molina wrote:
> > Netcat has strange issues about wanting stdin -- it won't run
> > backgrounded without being fed tail -f /dev/null.  I wonder if it
> > isn't the problem here.  I had discounted it since I redirected both
> > stdin and stdout to the logfile.
>
> I have had problems with netcat before.  As I recall (vague memory
> now) it does not handle EOF conditions desirably.  I switched my
> application to using the connect program (typically used with ssh)
> instead.  It handles end conditions much better.
>
>   http://www.meadowy.org/~gotoh/projects/connect
>
> If that meets your needs then you may find it works better.
>
> Bob

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