slackware 14.0: how is user input to console terminated (EOT)? Ctrl-D used to work.
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That should first kill any process in the foreground controlled by that console/tty/pty.
Of course you can type Ctrl-z then "bg" if want to keep the process running.
But I did not want to send any signal in case of sendmail being the command in question. sendmail does not process the input and I lie there waiting not able to diagnose.
I like to know what the behavior is for sendmail. Going back the title matter: in slackware 12.0 ^D irrevocably ended user console input. It never failed to terminate input.
Instead of asking vague questions, tell us exactly what command is not accepting your Ctrl-D in Slackware 14.0 when it was working in earlier versions.
Or perhaps for your user account on this computer you have set ignoreeof? Then you need to enter Ctrl-D 10 times before it gets accepted by the shell.
(enabling ignoreeof is achieved by adding this to your .bashrc or .profile: "set -o ignoreeof")
As to the vague questions... err, no, ^D, I only know I used to accidentally strike some keys and I recovered normal kb use with ^D while ^C had no effect in 12.0. Exactly the reverse is true in 14.0. See that fingers have a very precise memory, but cannot remember and exact command name.
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