Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sci34hub!cdthq!gary
From: gary@cdthq (gary)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: getty keeps dying
Message-ID: <9Z1yL1w161w@cdthq>
Date: 8 Jul 90 03:32:07 GMT
References: <1990Jul6.171544.10473@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Organization: Garys' Home for Obselete Computers
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max@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Max Southall) writes:
> >/dev/tty01: getty keeps dying - there may be a problem
> Yup, see it all the time, randomly.

Check and make sure all the handshaking lines on your serial
port are terminated (either looped back to it's opposite number
on the back of the computer, or driven by your terminal). Noise
on open lines has caused me problems in the past. 

Gary Heston, at home.... the problems were at work, though...