On Fri 30 May 2014 at 16:49:39 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 30/05/14 08:48, Bob Proulx wrote: > > As to why your command prompt isn't being emitted after the task > > is done that seems very strange to me. Definitely not normal. As > > you can see from my examples it works fine for me. Please let us > > know what you find is the problem. > > I've just installed exim and heirloom-mailx on a test vm to confirm my > suspicions. > > mailx does give the prompt back - but because a delivery report was > requested, and exim sends it to the screen rather than emailing it, > the prompt disappears in the noise (my exim config isn't correct, so > the mail goes nowhere, but that doesn't matter for the example). The > prompt comes back after the first 2 lines of the delivery report:
Nothing strange here. mailx completes and, as you say, the prompt is returned. The "noise" is from exim's standard error stream. It is instructive to do mailx -v rich...@walnut.gen.nz 2> eximlog or mailx -v rich...@walnut.gen.nz 2>&1 | tee A similar thing can happen with the standard error stream when a USB stick is attached or a PCMIA wireless card removed from a running machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140530142211.gn17...@copernicus.demon.co.uk
