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From: dag@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM (Daniel A. Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: uugetty & lock files
Message-ID: <543@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 14:30:31 GMT
References: <384@fe2o3.UUCP>
Reply-To: dag@fciva.UUCP (Daniel A. Graifer)
Organization: Franklin Capital Investments, Inc. McLean, Va.
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In article <384@fe2o3.UUCP> michael@fe2o3.UUCP (Michael Katzmann) writes:
>The problem:
>	uugetty seems to create a lockfile when a character is first received.
>I dont know when it is removed (perhaps after uugetty is restarted after a 
>login), however if it was just noise and no login is successful the lockfile,
>it seems, is never removed.
>Michael Katzmann

Are you using the -h and -t timeout options to uugetty (does your uugetty
have them)?  These should cause the uugetty to quit and respawn after 
timeout seconds.

Good luck
Dan
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