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From: max@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Max Southall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: getty keeps dying
Message-ID: <1990Jul6.171544.10473@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Date: 6 Jul 90 17:15:44 GMT
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>Randomly, about once or twice a week on different machines they will 
>get the message from /etc/init:
>
>/dev/tty01: getty keeps dying - there may be a problem
>
Yup, see it all the time, randomly.
Happens once or twice a day.
And it's on nonexistent ports most of the time, too!
When it's a real port, it disables it ... very annoying.
This is just with a couple of external ports for dial-in - no custom
software!
The version I have is Xenix 286 2.2.3 ...