problems with UUCP and SETGETTY
Richard H. Gumpertz
rhg at cpsolv.UUCP
Sat Oct 21 16:03:13 AEST 1989
In article <988 at icus.islp.ny.us> lenny at icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>Yes, those problems are pretty old. I can't remember the specifics, although
>I believe they were fixed. If they weren't fixed there were public domain
>version of setgetty (John Milton wrote) that did the same thing.
Anybody out there know anything about the "fixed" setgetty? John Milton maybe?
>|>5) Any ideas that might lead me to eliminating the setgetty problem? Any
>|> ideas what causes it?
>
>A malformed /etc/inittab file may hang setgetty. Basically if there is no
>space in front of a [uu]getty line it *might* lock up uugetty.
My /etc/inittab looks fine: it has a ":" at the beginning of the line in
question. Killing the looping setgetty and then running "setgetty 001 1"
manually works just fine.
I am still curious what is causing the original setgetty to sometimes loop,
usually when the system is unattended. Anybody know?
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