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From: ross@cancol.oz (Ross Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Runaway /etc/init on dn3500 sr10.1/bsd4.3/sysv?
Message-ID: <349@cancol.oz>
Date: 14 Apr 90 06:18:04 GMT
References: <4815@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Organization: Info. Sci. and Eng., University of Canberra
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In article <4815@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>, Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela) writes:
> 
>    I seemed to have a run-away /etc/init on my lone dn3500 (using
> TCP/IP, no other apollo domain nodes). When looked with "ps aux"
> etc/init had SZ ~ 20000 and RSS kept yoyoing from around 100 upto
> 2000-4000! You can guess what this does to 8Mb machine... (SZ was
> also slowly creeping upwards...).
>

[ First of all, if anyone sees this article can they send me e-mail. I'd
  like to know if it gets any further than the phone plug on the wall.  ]

I had this exact problem just recently and it had me worried. It turned
out to be lines in the /etc/ttys file which specified "none" for the command
field and were also flagged "on". I had done this so that root could
rlogin by adding lines for all the ttyp* devices and following the manual
verbatim, ie. ttys(4) said the line should be flagged "on" and "secure". I've
found I only need the "secure" flag (unless there's something I haven't
discovered yet).

	Ross Johnson
	ross@cancol.oz.au