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From: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Adding extra console window gettys: maybe not a good idea
Message-ID: <575@umbc3.UMD.EDU>
Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 20:24:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 14 20:24:43 1987
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References: <750@neoucom.UUCP> <162@manta.UUCP>
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In article <750@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>A while back somebody posted a suggestion of adding more gettys in
>/etc/inittab to permit several logins at the same time on the
>console. [...] I tried the suggestion, and it seemed to work for a
>while....

I've been running 3 gettys for a while now and have had no crashes, although
the machine does seem to be a trifle confused at times. The most obvious
symptom is the message "You cannot use the Telephone manager without logging
in.", which appears occationaly for no apperent reason. I also have interminate
problems with execl() failing with the error Not a tty, but this may be an
application problem.

						:alex.