console process getting killed

[Steven Augart]

   From: Paul Marsh <marsh at umt.uucp>
   Date: 9 Dec 86 01:08:59 GMT

   Any process associated with the console terminal was being terminated
   at random intervals.

   It puzzles
   me as to why this would problem would just startup the time it did.
   To the best of my knowledge, the only thing being done on a systems
   level, is that we were running the "/etc/netsetup" script, which
   modifies /etc/hosts, /etc/networks, and /etc/hosts.equiv files, for
   configuring a local area network.

This may not be your answer, but I know (from bitter experience) that
this problem happens on 4.2 BSD (and therefore on Ultrix) when the
definition line:

	127.0.0.1	localhost

is missing from the /etc/hosts file.  To make matters worse,
/etc/htable does not automatically create a localhost line; you need
such a line in /etc/localhosts.  Since you were munging /etc/hosts,
that's probably the cause.  The problem is especially insidious
because it doesn't show up until the next reboot.

SWA