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From: jesse@camelot.sgi.com (Jesse Rendleman)
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Subject: Re:  INIT spawns gettys repeatedly - why?
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Date: 29 Jun 90 20:19:35 GMT
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Another thing that can cause this is if the peripheral (I usually
see this with modems) is configured to echo characters back to the
system.  This causes the "login" to get echoed back, the getty thinks
someone is logging in, and things get confused.