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G'day all,

As a complete neophyte when it comes to Unix systems, I have been
unable to solve this problem:

When there is a break in the network, which happens quite frequently,
the network software eventually wakes up enough to say something
along the lines of "network connection terminated".  Then, when the
wires are re-soldered or whatever ;-) and you can login again, it's
quite common to find the following state of the host system:

SunOS Release 4.1.3 (GENERIC) #3: Mon Jul 27 16:43:54 PDT 1992

[server] 1% ps
  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
14970 p0 S     0:00 -csh (csh)
14984 p0 R     0:00 ps
10481 p3 IW    0:00 -csh (csh)
11262 p3 IW    0:10 nn
[server] 2%

Note that in addition to the current job, there are two "IW"
processes in the list from the involuntary termination of the
earlier connection.

What I would like to know is, is it possible to re-start the
IW processes?  I'm damned if I can find anything in such docs
as I have available which tells me how to do it.  In the specific
case exampled above, you have to kill off the earlier processes
before you can start nn again. (E.g. kill -9 10481 )  It would
be nicer to just get the existing job running again.  Can it be
done?

Thanks for your time.

Cheers,  Ian S.

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