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From: duane@anasaz.UUCP (Duane Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: ttyb weirdness
Summary: A couple of things to try
Message-ID: <1242@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 90 20:15:11 GMT
References: <272@psgdc>
Organization: Anasazi Inc., Phoenix AZ
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In article <272@psgdc>, rg@psgdc (Dick Gill) writes:
>......
> 
> The client said that the only way to straighten out this problem
> was to power the terminal off and on again.  I did powered the
> terminal off and all at once a message from tty? appeared on
> almost all of the other terminals.  The content of the message
> was the keystrokes I had entered in trying to log in, including
> my user name, password and all of the CR/LF sequences!  Upon
> powering up again I was able to login normally, but soon hit the
> same situation where the <RETURN> key did not work properly. 
> Upon turning the terminal off and on again, more messages were
> sent to the other terminals.

No telling what's really going on, but here are a couple of things
to look at when the problem next occurs.

First, check the inittab entry and verify that ttyb has the usual
entry (respawn, running getty, etc.).

Second, go to a different terminal and do a 'ps -ftb' to see what the
system thinks is running on ttyb. If nothing shows up, do a 'who -l'
and see if ttyb shows up in the "login/getty" list.

If that doesn't turn up anything useful,
do a 'ps -af' and see if anybody is running something suspicious.
For instance, a program with the right privileges might be redirecting
input from ttyb. Though I haven't tried it myself, it may be that
running 'wall' with input directed from ttyb would produce the results
you saw.

Good luck!
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Duane Morse	e-mail: duane@anasaz (or ... asuvax!anasaz!duane)
(602) 861-7609