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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: 5810 installation report
Message-ID: <9188@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Jan 90 14:40:31 GMT
References: <9172@cbmvax.commodore.com> <9179@cbmvax.commodore.com> <561@shodha.dec.com>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <561@shodha.dec.com> alan@shodha.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes:
> In article <9179@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> >
> 
> 	1.  The getty with the line open, sees noise and thinks...
> 	2.  Login searchs the password file for the noise and prompts...
> 	3.  Some time later init notices that nothing is running on...
> 	4.  Symtoms: Lots of system calls, lots of time spent in
> 	    kernel mode and lots of forks...

This isn't entirely convincing.  I've buy some if I had some kind of grotty
wire attached, but this is a bare distribution panel.

What seems to be happening is that the getty sitting there getting buzzed.
No forking going on (vmstat -f) and it's always the same getty sitting there.
No messages going to syslog either.  Kind of hard to to tell if it's pounding
the passwd file as you suggest.

> 	    Solution: All activeated tty lines should be connected
> 	    to terminals and the terminals should be turned on.

This is less than practical...

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