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From: bowen@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Devon Bowen)
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Subject: Re: telnet/rlogin "bouncing"
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Date: 13 Feb 90 17:50:41 GMT
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In article <763@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>, francis@chook.ua.oz
(Francis Vaughan) writes:
> systems hackers use Suns we found it nessesary to have a terminal attached
> to an annex, ready all the time soley to enable us to clear the problem via
> the "call" protocol.

A cheaper fix is to run a backgrounded rlogin just before a regular rlogin.
The backgrounded one grabs the bad ptty long enough for the other rlogin to
grab a valid one. I did this from home a lot.

Devon