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From: tore@ifi.uio.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Cannot obtain database information on this terminal
Keywords: intellimux, ttys
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.132228.2510@ifi.uio.no>
Date: 20 Aug 90 13:22:28 GMT
Sender: tore@ifi.uio.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen)
Reply-To: tore@ifi.uio.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen)
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University in Oslo, Norway
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Nntp-Posting-Host: solvar.ifi.uio.no
Originator: tore@solvar.ifi.uio.no



I've just installed an extra serial line box called "intellimux"
from ALR on a machine running SCO unix 3.2.

Installation worked ok, and I got several news ttys, called
/dev/ttya[1-8]. Enabling a serial line e.g /dev/ttya2 seems ok,
because the login prompt appears on the terminal screen.

Logging in on the machine give the following error message:
"Cannot obtain database information on this terminal" before the
password prompt.

I've tried to do some debugging, and I've noticed a file called
/etc/auth/system/ttys .

This file does not contain the new device "/dev/ttya1". Including this
device to the file, seems to fix the problem. I can log in on that
terminal, but only once. After I log out from the terminal, the
"/dev/ttya1" disappears from the  "/etc/auth/system/ttys" file, 
and I'm back again.

Can someone please tell me which file(s) to update in order to make the
new devices known to the system ?

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Tore Solvar