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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: rlogind: /etc/init: Invalid argument
Message-ID: <87831@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 16 Oct 89 05:57:10 GMT
References: <9714@blia.BLI.COM>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <9714@blia.BLI.COM> mike@blia.UUCP (Mike Ubell) writes:
>Has anyone seen the message: "rlogind: /etc/init: Invalid argument" when
>trying to rlogin into a Pyramid? It seems to be an intermittent problem.

This was a timing problem between rlogin and the child process it forks to
accept the call. Pyramid uses a magic device, /dev/init, to do the universe-
specific processing of login. (Writing the two utmp files, wtmp files, etc.)
I've forgotten the exact bug, but it had something to do with the child doing
the write to /dev/init when the parent should have, or vice versa....

Anyway, it's certainly fixed in OSx 5.0, along with porting the 4.3bsd-tahoe
versions of the networking daemons. I'm not surprised that RTOC didn't know
about it, since I'm pretty sure, um, I, er, *forgot* to put this fix in the
OSx 5.0 NSP Release Notes. (The bug was actually fixed by our tty wizard. I
ended up doing the Release Notes based on the who-touched-it-last rule. :-))

The problem is pretty harmless. Just do the rlogin again.

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