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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!wupost!gumby!yale!zip.eecs.umich.edu!niagara.eecs.umich.edu!khushro From: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Cannot login without sending HUP to getty Date: 23 May 1993 18:10:12 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1toem4$hpc@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Reply-To: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) NNTP-Posting-Host: niagara.eecs.umich.edu After every reboot, there are 3 possibilities: 1. Everything is normal, I am able to login (rare, but it occurs) 2. Does not respond to the keyboard atall (rare, but it also occurs) 3. Lets me enter the login name, then does not respond with the passwd prompt Then it echoes the keyboard, but does not log me in (most frequent). In both 2, and 3, the cure is to rlogin, and send a HUP signal to getty. Then normal behavior is restored. This problem never occurs for rlogin - only on the local console. The system is NetBSD, with the NetBSD kernel, and the problem was also there when I was using the pccons kernel. Questions: 1. How do I fix this (I mean a real solution, not just to put a kill command in /etc/rc)? 2. What does the HUP signal to getty do that /etc/rc does not do? -- Copyright KHUSHRO SHAHOOKAR, $0.02 khushro@eecs.umich.edu Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor