From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10050 invoked from network); 10 Mar 1998 18:22:48 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 10 Mar 1998 18:22:48 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA15861; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:09:01 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:06:43 -0500 (EST) From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 18:09:10 +0000 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: disappearing zsh's Message-Id: Resent-Message-ID: <"a0tR22.0.rs3.p4O1r"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1381 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu On the subject of disappearing zsh's.... With zsh 3.x and FreeBSD 2.2.5 or 3.0 when you alias su to su root -c zsh (I prefer to keep roots shell as /bin/sh) then typing ^A^K followed by two or three newlines will cause the shell to quit with an error like "read error from terminal". Anyone else come across this? Regards, Niall