Re: bash: no job control in this shell

["SN_Diamond" <Norman.Diamond@example.com>]

SL Baur is still trying to help me.

> >   PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> >  1020   ? SW   0:00 login -- ndiamond
> >  1021   ? S    0:00 -bash
> >  1262   ? S    0:00 su
> >  1263   ? S    0:00 bash
>
> There's your problem.  See the `?' in the tty column?  That means you
> have no control terminal.  You should have no job control in your
> original login shell also.

There was no warning about that in my original login shell.  I wanted to
test it, but, sigh, more in a moment.

> This is a console login, right?  Try switching to another virtual
> console.

No, no one is logged on at any virtual console, X or text or any.  (Besides,
I don't want to test Ctrl-Alt-F1 on that machine at the moment because it
might hang the machine, as mentioned in another thread.)

The login is via TeraTerm using the plain old telnet interface.

This time I had left the pty su'ed since our previous round, so this time I
tried to do a Ctrl-D to return to my login shell and run something to test
job control.  And the keyboard on the PC where I was running TeraTerm
decided that this would be a fun time to bounce.  The second bounce of
Ctrl-D logged out the TeraTerm, and the third one, who knows what Windows
2000 did with it.

Anyway, I started up TeraTerm again, logged in as myself, and as usual had
no warnings.  Ran a new "su" just to check if it still had this week's
misbehavior.  Nope, gone!  No warning!  It must have been cured by our
conversation.  As originally stated in my question, it didn't used to have
this problem.  So why did it start, and now why did it suddenly stop, who
knows.

Tomorrow if it happens again I'll ask for help again.

Sincerely,
Norman Diamond