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Re: agetty process cleanup after loss of carrier


"BB" <canofspam at att dot net> wrote in message
news:b4ong7$atr$1 at main dot gmane dot org dot  dot  dot 
> I'm trying to use agetty and have been having a problem.  I would
appreciate
> any help I can get.
>
> When I use bash as a users login shell and the incomming connection hangs
up
> without exiting the shell, the bash process is eventually cleaned up.
When
> I use pdksh as the login shell, it doesnt get cleaned up.  Is there
> something I need to set up to get this to happen?
>
> Also, is there any way to speed up the cleanup process once the modem
> carrier is lost?
>
> Thanks
>

So I guess agetty would be useless on an unattended machine if pdksh was
used as a users login shell.  agetty would never know that the call has
terminated so it would never restart to accept another call.

Are there any plans to port mgetty to Cygwin?




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