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From: david@monymsys.uucp (David Kozinn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Login problems with System V/386 3.0e
Keywords: login gettydefs
Message-ID: <1989Aug14.193336.4148@monymsys.uucp>
Date: 14 Aug 89 19:33:36 GMT
References: <782@cgh.UUCP> <9632@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: david@monymsys.UUCP (David Kozinn)
Organization: MONY Financial Services, Microcomputer Systems, Teaneck, NJ
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In article <9632@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>
>As far as I can tell, there is a a bug where /dev/tty doesn't always 
>get set up correctly and /bin/login fails when it can't open it.  Non 
>standard getty things seem to make it worse.  That's about all I know 
>about this problem.  
>

I had meant to post a follow-up on this (I thought I did, I'm pretty new to
netnews and might have messed up), but Jon is apparently correct. The problem
had to do with the tty not being set up correctly. Here's my current gettydefs
line for the tty in question:

2400H# B2400 # B2400 SANE IXANY TAB3 HUPCL #\nlogin: #1200H

This line does, indeed, work correctly and I haven't had any problems since I
put this in. Thanks to those who sent help.
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