This is turning out to be rather interesting.
Many have responded that the "You have running jobs" message appears when
you try to logout (ksh)
and have jobs running in the background, but this is not the issue.
The issue is that when a user logs on, this message appears when the
application menu attempts to run
(which is exec'd in the .profile) and the user is dropped back to a shell
prompt.
Clearly jobs are running. I suspect that the running job is a script called
in /etc/profile which sets up the
user environment. As a work around I have put a sleep 1 in the .profile
before calling the application menu
which resolves the issue, but I would like to understand this better.
The environment script makes extensive use of the . /application notation to
make calls within the current shell.
is it perhaps the case that the shell can not run the application menu or
exec while a process is still running
in the current shell?
My knowledge of k shell behaviour is inadequate to answer these questions
but ...
Kind regards
Lawrie Smith
Capita Technical Services
West Malling
email: lawrie.smith_at_capita.co.uk
Tel: 01732 877266
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