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sn#393996 filedate 1978-11-10 generic text, type T, neo UTF8
What to do if your network connection suddenly closes on you:
Make sure it is nothing having to do with your local host. I
can't be responsible if somebody else's computer crashes!
Also, note that it is a feature that if you are idle for over
a minute and not logged in that the system will close the
connection automatically unless you are in a TALK ring.
Try to reconnect. If you can't, then we probably crashed.
If you can, do the monitor command
TI 0
to see if the system was just reloaded (the uptime will be a
small quantity) or if the system had a non-fatal crash (the
pause time will be close to the current time).
If it looks like the system didn't crash, try to contact
Mark Crispin (MRC) immediately. If necessary, call him at
home at (415) 941-1096. Have the following information
available:
[1] did your job survive the disconnection? If it did, was
it detached, or on a PTY? You can determine this by
doing the monitor command
FINGER pn
where pn is your programmer name.
[2] if it was on a PTY, did it have a PTY controller (FINGER
will say a network site) or is it an ORPHAN (FINGER will
say so).
[3] what network host are you coming from?