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Subject: Submission for comp-unix-microport
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Date: 7 Jan 89 09:08:30 GMT
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From: pa1293@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (pa1293)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Compaq 386/25mhz bugs
Keywords: Compaq, fuser, getty
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Date: 5 Jan 89 20:09:15 GMT
References: <4464@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
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Organization: University of California, San Diego
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In article <4464@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> jlkar@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (SRVAC 4w400ee-John L. Karsner) writes:
>1)  I hooked up a NEC 2420/30 (2400baud) modem to port 0 and found a very
>interesting little annoyance. That is, when calling into the machine from the
>outer worlds and trying to log off, you can't. Well I mean you can't do it the
>normal way. Upon entering ^D or exit at your prompt, this darn thing spawns
>a new getty so fast that you get a login in prompt once again. The only thing
>that really works and does not leave the modem hung is to logout using the
>command stty 0. I called tech support and they confirmed this little bug for

try putting this in .profile as a temporary fix.

logout () {
	banner "Bye Bye!!!"
	stty 0
}
trap logout 0

this will leave the logout function in the lowest level shell and 
will log the user out using "stty 0" even if ctrl-D is hit. I use this 
method on my account to log both logins and logouts to a file and it has
not failed so far.

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John Marco
pa1343@sdcc15.ucsd.edu