Re: /bin/login hanging around

2002-08-21 Thread kcr
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why is it that /bin/login seems to hang around for the duration of the user's session on other distributions but not on Debian? Traditional Unix does it the we way do; login exec's the user's shell, etc. Other distributions seem to come with whiz-bang

/bin/login hanging around

2002-08-19 Thread Russell Coker
Why is it that /bin/login seems to hang around for the duration of the user's session on other distributions but not on Debian? Why do other distributions choose to have it keep running until the end of the session while we did not? -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If