[smartmontools-support]Unable to exit from cygwin when smartd is running

[suresh d. <dss...@ma...>]

Hi all,

I'm using smartmontools-5.32 on cygwin-1.5.12  on win2000. I'm using bash s=
hell in the cygwin. After I run smartd, then I try to quit cygwin by "exit"=
 command, I'm unable to exit out of cygwin. In other words, whenever smartd=
 is running, I'm not able to exit out of the cygwin/bash window. So, I forc=
ibly kill the cygwin/bash window which kills the smartd also. smartd is a d=
aemon; once it is put into the background as a daemon, why should it get ki=
lled when I try to exit cygwin?

So, the two questions I'm asking are:

1) When smartd is running (which was started thro' cygwin/bash), why I'm un=
able to exit cygwin?

2) When I focribly exit cygwin, why it kills smartd also?

3) Why this doesn't get logged? (Normally all the log stuff related to smar=
td in cygwin is logged in the event log in windows).

I've just given below a screen capture on the cygwin.

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Administrator@IND-suresh ~
$ smartd

Administrator@IND-suresh ~
$ ps -ef
     UID     PID    PPID TTY     STIME COMMAND
Administ    1568       1 con  14:31:46 /usr/bin/bash
Administ    2244       1   ?  14:31:49 /usr/sbin/smartd
Administ    1060    1568 con  14:31:53 /usr/bin/ps

Administrator@IND-suresh ~
$ exit
logout

_

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The "_" below the logout message, is the cursor; the cygwin window just han=
gs at this point; When I forcibly kill it by clicking the close button icon=
 on the top right corner of the cygwin window, Win2000 pops up a message bo=
x, saying the operation may need more time to to complete. But the point is=
, I've waited for many, many minutes and it never gets killed ie. I'm never=
 able to exit out of cygwin. This happens only when smartd is running and n=
ot with any other commands.

At the base, I have win2000. Above that , cygwin. Bash is the shell on the =
cygwin. And smartd is invoked from bash. So, there are 4 layers, win2000, c=
ywin, bash, smartd. Out of these, which is responsible for this problem? I =
don't know....

Has anyone experienced similar problem when running smartd in cygwin?

Experts... I need help.

thanks

suresh


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