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Suns-at-Home Digest         Mon,  8 Oct 90       Volume 3 : Issue  30 

Today's Topics:
                 Script to kill "bad" getty processes
                      Suns-at-Home Digest V3 #29

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Date: 5 Oct 90 00:14:14 GMT
From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Script to kill "bad" getty processes
To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu

quack is a Sun 2/170 running SunOS 4.0 + yapt5.5c -- quite
a buggy system to be sure. One problem that seems to happen once
in a while is that someone on a modem port will log out with
a process running in the background. Under this circumstance,
the tty file attached to the modem is not closed -- the background
process keeps it open. So "stty hupcl" does not take place.
The getty sees a good carrier, so the open succeeds and the
user gets a login prompt. The user then just drops carrier,
which leaves the getty in a fairly confused state. It can't
read or write, since the carrier is out, but it DID open
the tty file. What results is that sps reports that getty
is stuck with a "w?tym0" status. Well, this has all sorts
of other negative conotations which at least in MY case
make it beneficial that these processes get killed.

This script uses sps to look for processes that have ?ty
in their status indicator window and "-" as their name.
If it finds any, it prints out the sps data from from those
processes, and kill -9's them.

This may or may not be a useful thing for others. I am sharing it
in case it is.

---------- cut here ----------
#! /bin/sh

kill=`sps -va 2>/dev/null | awk '
    { if ( ( $2 ~ /\?ty/ ) && ( $9 == "-" ) ) print $8 } '`

if [ -z "$kill" ] ; then
exit 0
fi

echo Killing processes: $kill
sps -vp $kill

kill -9 $kill

exit 0
---------- ereh tuc ----------

-- 
Nick Sayer               |  Disclaimer:
N6QQQ [44.2.1.17 soon]   |    "Just because you're reading my post doesn't
mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us  |     mean we're gonna take long showers together."
209-952-5347 (Telebit)   |                      -- Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Highway

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Date: Mon Oct  1 21:54:23 1990
From: ssi!beowulf!bownesrm@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V3 #29
To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu

	A while back someone offered to make tapes of X11 binaries for
sun-2's available. I'd like to get a copy if possible, but I don't
remember who it was that offered......Any volunteers?

	Thanks,
		bob

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