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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: getty keeps dying
Message-ID: <11097@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 6 Jul 90 18:01:27 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.171544.10473@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
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in article <1990Jul6.171544.10473@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>, max@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Max Southall) says:
> 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!

This sounds like an intermittent carrier detect. (Getty would try to re-
establish itself in that case, and probably cause a race condition on the
port.) Isn't there a timeout value you can set for CD drops?
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BURNS,JIM
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