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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: 7300 uucp trouble with setgetty!
Message-ID: <268@amanue.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 88 06:16:54 GMT
References: <120@slbtoy.UUCP> <10800001@fthood>
Reply-To: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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In article <10800001@fthood> egray@fthood.UUCP writes:
>Reference: setgetty getting "lost"
>
>This is a symptom of editing the /etc/inittab file by hand and not
>leaving the space or colon at the begining of the line.

I don't think it's quite this simple.  In my humble opinion setgetty has a
screw or two loose, even if you never touch inittab.  Who wouldn't occasionally
make the mistake:

getoff.sh tty000

instead of what you're supposed to type, which is:

getoff.sh 000

When you make this mistake setgetty seems to hang.  I frankly can't think of
any good excuse for this!  (Let's see now, they have six legs, a head, thorax
and abdomen, entomologists enjoy them immensely ...)
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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