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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Strange "getty: failed to open /dev/tty" behavior
Message-ID: <7370197@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 90 23:04:40 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard/FSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
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re: > We recently saw something baffling on one of our HP 9000/360
    > workstations, running HP-UX 6.5.  After four days' continuous logon,
    > the following message appeared in the "console" window:

    >	getty: failed to open /dev/tty: no such device or address

I suspect the major clue is "4 days".  I'll bet a shell timed out beneath
some other command/application child, but the now-orphaned children weren't
killed or refused to die.  They still had the console open, so getty
couldn't reopen it.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
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