some users act differfently

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Nancy Palmquist averred (on Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 12:53:05PM -0500):
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| 
| On 10/30/2015 12:23 PM, Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list wrote:
| >Users run filePro on a Unix server, connecting via ssh under Anzio.
| >
| >In a certain input processing, there is a choice to mail an invoice.
| >This works fine for all  but two users.
| >
| >These two users get hung up in filePro after electing to Send, unable
| >go close the screen (DelDel just prints a non-ascii character to the
| >screen).
| >
| >I see nothing special in their .profile files.  I can log in and su to
| >either of those users and get similarly stuck.
| >
| >The process table shows the mail commands launched by a SYSTEM call, and
| >I have to kill them manually.
| >
| >What could cause hang-ups from a filePro SYSTEM command only for certain
| >users?
| >
| JP,
| 
| Are the users using the same TERMTYPE?  Is the document they are generating
| the same?

They have the same .profile settings.

| Sounds like you are triggering the local printing with the output. The
| behavior sounds like what would happen
| with transparent printing.

Printing isn't involved, all the SYSTEM calls want to run mutt.

But as I posted over the weekend, after a reboot this problem went away.
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JP