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Neil Williams wrote:
Can anyone tell me what this means? bash: no job control in this shell
Job control is the ability to send processes into the background. i.e. If the shell is buy doing some thing, you can "ctrl-Z" and "bg %N" where "N" is job number, and get a prompt back whilst the other process(es) run in the background. Bash has job control, but it can be disabled at various times, but I'm not clear on the details of when and how. See "man bash". I'd be looking for things that spawn processes, or broken shell scripts in root's login. Possible you just pressed the wrong key combination at the wrong time. The paranoid would tell you to check the machine out thoroughly for nasties, unusual running processes etc, and check to see if the su command is the right one etc. -- Free Software: What good is Open Source without Freedom? Open Source Day 2002/04/27 Exeter University Entry is free (as in free beer, but there isn't any free beer) http://www.dclug.org.uk/ossday/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.