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Date:      Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:16:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getty problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809271714590.10929-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980927140335.29714A-100000@earth.mat.net>

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On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:

> This is about a strange problem I'm seeing, about getting a getty
> started on a machine.  This machine was doing gettys just fine a
> couple of days ago, before there was an attack on the system
> (denial of service, but apparently some other stuff too?)
> 
> This machine in the one I was getting my ppp through so I'm
> concerned.  I was the only user getting ppp from it yet.
> Everything works ok except that the gettys don't show up anymore.
> 
> There's a lot of possibilities for this, so please don't answer
> until you've seen all the stuff I *have already* checked, ok?  
> Here they are:

This is a followup to my own post.  Found the problem, there had been a
change made to rc.conf, which malperformed, and made it so rc didn't
complete, hence init never started up the gettys.  New one on me, won't
quickly forget this error!  rc HAS to finish!

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Chuck Robey                 | Interests include any kind of voice or data 
chuckr@glue.umd.edu         | communications topic, C programming, and Unix.
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