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From: latham@ablnc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b1:  /etc/inittab needs this fix
Message-ID: <348@ablnc.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 12:25:34 EST
Article-I.D.: ablnc.348
Posted: Wed Nov  4 12:25:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 17:17:01 EST
References: <744@neoucom.UUCP>
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Summary: Try THE STORE!

In article <744@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
> Hi gang,
> ....
> OK, so that's out of the way, now down to business.  I found that
> my 3b1 was needlessly running up the phone bills of the system here
> at work when the mahcine here polled the 3b1.
> .. looks like uucico doesn't send a kill signal to getty when it
> exits.  Thus getty doesn't respawn, thus clearing the line.  What
> 
> A quicky solution is to edit /etc/inittab against the stern
> advisement and add a timeout flag so that after uucico exits, that
> getty will automatically respawn itself after nothing gets "typed"
> into the login: prompt for a while.  I found -t60 does the trick.
> Refer to your manual for details on the getty flags.
> 
> While in the b*tching mode, the /bin/mail provided is pretty bogus.
> Looks like ancient Sys III stuff to me.  My manual sez "Sys V" on
> the cover: Hmmmmm.  Anybody have a tolerable mail shell out there??
> I'm pretty spoiled by BSD mail.
> 

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