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From: kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: using bash or zsh kills X server
Date: 2 Dec 1992 22:08:42 GMT
Organization: I.Physikalisches Institut RWTH-Aachen
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Keywords: bash zsh Xserver


I have experienced that running bash (and I believe I observed it under zsh, too) in an xterm often kills the X server. I switched back to vanilla /bin/sh
but will investigate it further when I have time.

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--Chris
Christoph P. U. Kukulies
kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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