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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: tty error
Message-ID: <136@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 11 Apr 88 02:09:57 GMT
References: <884@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <160@turnkey.TCC.COM> <3@stanton.TCC.COM>
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Organization: One of the Eternal Champions - Richfield, MN, 554232523, USA
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Summary: an anecdote, bird-dogging

In article <3@stanton.TCC.COM>, donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan) writes:
> In article <160@turnkey.TCC.COM>, jack@turnkey.TCC.COM (TCC Software Developer) writes:
> In article <884@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> mabrey@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Dennis W Mabrey) writes:
> >       init:/dev/ttyx05: getty keeps dying. There may be a problem 
> [description of how to fix a bad getty]
> If you had a REAL computer (like a cray, doesn't everyone need one at home?)
> this WOULDN'T HAPPEN! :-)

I believe this phenomenah is called "bird dogging", i'm not sure why.  We once
had, through the vagaries of our terminal server, one of our login ports hooked
up to another login port.  First I found out about it was when users started
complaining about massive (more than usual (:-)) system degradation.  Our getty
was spawning and respawning fairly quickly.
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Derek Terveer	det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG	uunet!rosevax!elric!hawkmoon!det