Package: minicom Version: 1.71 When I run "xminicom", and then kill it from the window that invoked it with a ^C, the rxvt exits, but the minicom stays around and floods the modem with something (the little TX and RX lights go on). I would think that trapping SIGHUP (and some others) to not do anything at all would be a fairly good fix, but I'm sure you guys will come up with a much neater way of dealing with it :-) I am using Debian 0.93R6