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From: hartzell@boulder.colorado.edu (George Hartzell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: login and syslog question.
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Date: 10 Aug 90 02:41:19 GMT
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Reply-To: hartzell@beagle (George Hartzell)
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I have two related problems/questions.  I'm using an M-2000 running
RISC/os 4.50.  I have 48 serial lines strung out through a large
building (almost certainly out of rs232 spec).  Some of these serial
lines are connected to PC's and MACs.  When some of these machines are
turned off login/getty tries to log in "people" with names like
"mkmkk[m[".  Some of my ee type friends tell me that this is because
the M-2000's receive line is no longer tied to ground, and that I can
fix it by placing an "appropriately sized" resistor across the grnd
and receive lines (only definition of appropriate is "one that
works").  I've had mixed success with this, but hope to be able to get
it with a bit of work.

Here are my questions:
	1) Does this sound like the best fix?
	2) Can someone tell me how to get syslog to ignore/dump to 
           /dev/null the following messages?   I don't need them
           cluttering up my log files, I *KNOW* it's happening.

Aug  9 00:16:27 beagle login: LOGIN TIMEOUT ON /dev/ttyi11, mkmkk[m[
Aug  9 00:16:27 beagle login: LOGIN TIMEOUT ON /dev/ttyj9, mkmkk[m[
Aug  9 00:16:41 beagle login: LOGIN TIMEOUT ON /dev/ttyh4, MJMJJRIS

Any help/suggestions appreciated.
g.
George Hartzell			                  (303) 492-4535
 MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU           ..!ncar!boulder!hartzell