7300 uucp trouble with setgetty!

[Scot E. Wilcoxon]

In article <120 at slbtoy.UUCP> slb at slbtoy.UUCP (Sanford L. Barr) writes:
>...
>	The uucico process spawns a "getoff.sh" which then calls
>"setgetty".  The setgetty process seems to just hang in mid air.  If I
>...

Setgetty has been hanging several times a week here.  I had to make a
daemon which kills any setgetty which has used "too much" CPU time.

In crontab:
6 * * * * /bin/su root -c "/usr/local/bin/setg.clean" > /dev/null

And what does the work (should use setgetty, but it has no documentation):

# Test for a setgetty with a lot of CPU, kill it, and fix inittab

SETGLINE=`ps -ef | fgrep setgetty`
if [ -n "$SETGLINE" ]
then
	CPTIME=`expr "$SETGLINE" : '.*:..:.. ... \(.*\):.. setgetty'`
	if [ ${CPTIME:-0} -gt 9 ]
	then
		echo $SETGLINE | mail root
		PROCID=`expr "$SETGLINE" : '^....... \(.....\) '`
		kill -9 $PROCID
		sleep 5

		cp /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.new
		sed -e '/^:ph1/s/^:/ /' /etc/inittab >/etc/inittab.new
		mv /etc/inittab.new /etc/inittab
		sleep 15
		telinit q
	fi
fi
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