mgetty and SunOS 4.1.1: cannot get TIO

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Hi,

Frank Bartels wrote:
> I'm successfully using mgetty on my Sun 3 with SunOS 4.1.1. I compiled

Great. Kudos to Earl Hartwig for his excellent port, and kudos to all
SunOS testers.

> There ist still a little problem. Nearly everytime an interactive user
> logs out, I get the following in my logfile. It does not happen if I
[..]
> 03/19 20:47:50  check for lockfiles
> 03/19 20:47:50  locking the line
> 03/19 20:47:50  lowering DTR to reset Modem
> 03/19 20:47:54  tcsetattr failed: No such device or address
> 03/19 20:47:54  tcgetattr failed: No such device or address
> 03/19 20:47:54  cannot get TIO: No such device or address

Strange. Sounds like a race condition or what with /etc/init calling
vhangup() or so. SunOS experts: likely? What to do against it?

> I get the message 'mgetty fatal: cannot get TIO' on the console.

Sure, that's the error above - it's considered fatal enough (it absolutely
prevents mgetty from working) to notify the operator. I did not think that
there would be a system where this happens every now and then...

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             gert@greenie.muc.de
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