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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!rodos1!wkt From: wkt@rodos1.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Subject: 386BSD: /etc/rc's exit kills slattach(8) Message-ID: <1992Jul24.014014.16797@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> Keywords: slattach SLIP etc/rc Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:40:14 GMT Quick bug report, and workaround. /etc/rc's exit 0 (i.e what happens after this) causes an slattach(8) in /etc/netstart to die. It's not getty and it is after the exit 0, because I renamed getty -> betty and put a sleep 10 on the line above rc's exit 0. I tried at least two slattach lines in /etc/netstart: slattach /dev/com2 9600 slattach /dev/com2 9600 < /dev/null > /dev/null Didn't try nohup slattach /dev/com2 9600 Workaround: Manually restart the slattach once you log in. Misc: I spent 3 hours trying to work out why my `network was down' because of this :-(. Ifconfig reports sl0 being UP, even with the slattach dead. Sigh. Warren Toomey VK1XWT, on the path to insanity No longer in the bowels of ADFA Comp Science. `Version 7 Job Control: just use ptrace(2).'