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From: dbfunk@ICAEN.UIOWA.EDU (David B Funk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Rlogin locks up
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Date: 16 Jan 90 07:04:32 GMT
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In posting <1990Jan15.193322.8358@idacom.uucp>, Danny Wilson <danny@idacom.uucp> asks:

> After installing SR10.1 we are experiencing strange problems
> with rlogin locking up.
> ...

    It sounds like your pseudo-ttys ("/dev/?typ?") are messed up.
I've seen some strange problems caused by messed up device files.
Try deleting all the pseudo-tty files and then using "/etc/crpty"
to recreate a fresh batch.
    I had one case where a sour OS install messed up lots of the
stuff in /dev. None of the user processes knew what their "TTY"
was. (IE you'd do a "ps agux" and ALL the processes had a "?"
in their "TTY" field.) I had to delete everything out of /dev
and use /etc/mkdev to recreate it all.

Dave Funk