console process getting killed

[Gordon Vickers]

In article <605 at umt.UUCP> marsh at umt.UUCP (Paul Marsh) writes:
>We are running Ultrix 1.2 on a VAX 11/785, and noticed the following
>problem after the system came up from a segmentation fault crash.
>Any process associated with the console terminal was being terminated
>at random intervals.  A clean system reload was our first attempt to
>solve the problem, but that failed to change the situation.  After
>watching its behavior, it appears to occur each time someone logs-out.
>This leads me to think that "init" might be the culprit.  It puzzles
>me as to why this would problem would just startup the time it did.
>To the best of my knowledge, the only thing being done on a systems
>level, is that we were running the "/etc/netsetup" script, which
>modifies /etc/hosts, /etc/networks, and /etc/hosts.equiv files, for
>configuring a local area network.  Is there something related here?
>Any help with this problem would be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
>
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>	    			Missoula, MT	59812
>phone :				(406) 243-5455

   Sound very similar to a problem we had here: Everytime some one logged
 off, the console would receive a new login prompt.
   DEC solved this one  for me, fortunately, they had seen it before.
 The localhosts entry in /etc/hosts must include the FULL address (i.e.
 the 'optional' zeroes MUST be included) :
     127.0.0.1 localhost myname
 where 'myname' must  ofcourse, match the string returned by hostname(1)
 
    Hope this helps.
          

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