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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
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Subject: Re: networking apollos to foreign systems (i.e. Sun)
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Date: 31 Dec 90 17:37:30 GMT
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In-Reply-To: csfst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu's message of 31 Dec 90 17:26:48 GMT

In article <74452@unix.cis.pitt.edu> csfst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Charles S. Fuller) writes:

   One major "gotcha" with SR10.2 is the "pty corruption" problem.  I
   mention it here because it will affect telnet access to your Apolli.
   If you're going to be running SR10.2, be prepared for users being unable
   to login to the machine until you destroy the pty files and re-create
   them.  Frequently.  This problem is fixed in 10.3, by the way.

That is not my experience.  We still see it under 10.3, but it seems
to have become more rare.  To stop the problem from getting out of
hand we have a cron job removing and rebuilding all ptys once a week
(on Sunday morning).

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY