agetty process cleanup after loss of carrier

Thu Mar 13 23:57:00 GMT 2003

"BB" <canofspam@att.net> wrote in message
news:b4ong7$atr$1@main.gmane.org...
> 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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