From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 Description of problem: When users login via telnet and start an application and do not log out correctly but just press the X on their windows terminal client the telnetd process terminates but the login process remains as well as the bash process and the application process Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. login with telnet terminal emulation programm 2. start a program, e.g. top. 3. close the terminal emulation Actual Results: The program, bash and login processes remain with no attached terminal Expected Results: The processes should terminate when telnetd exits Additional info: I found this behaviour on two application server systems we have, but not on my reference 7.2 installation (in VMware, just basic setup and all errata packages applied). The servers both have been upgraded from 6.2, the reference system was installed on a plain virtual machine.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59029 ***