mgetty stops answering phone

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Hi,

On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 11:42:40AM -0600, Jason Hoffman (EUS) wrote:
> I had something like that happen in the 5.1/5.2 distribution of Redhat (
> sorry, I do not remember the Mgetty version. ) I am using the version
> distributed with Redhat 6.0 now, and no longer have the problem.  
> 
> As a workaround ( because I was too lazy to find the proper way to fix it ),
> I created a cron job that would check to see if it was hung ( I could tell
> by looking at the differernt ps -? Outputs  ), and killed mgetty if the
> situation occurred.  
> 
> By the way, I downloaded the latest mgetty RPM from Redhat 6.1 ftp site, and
> came up with a version newer than 1.0.  You may want to check your version
> and upgrade if necessary.   I think the version that came with RH 6.1 was
> Mgetty 1.1.14.  

1.1.14 is OK, but I think RH 5 shipped with 1.1.9 or something like this,
which doesn't work with glibc2.

gert
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