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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!pilchuck!hebron!eskimo!nanook
- From: nanook@eskimo.celestial.com (Robert Dinse)
- Subject: What is auditsys() ??? Has anybody got a fix for stuck ports?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.210340.3199@eskimo.celestial.com>
- Keywords: auditsys() and MTI-1600's.
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:03:40 GMT
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- I've got a couple of MTI-1600's and ports hang all too often. They are
- used for dial-up access.
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- The ports hang in a variety of strange modes, amoung them:
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- The 'SD' lead gets stuck high.
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- The port refuses to receive but will still transmit.
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- The port will receive but will not transmit.
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- The DTR lead will not go low when the port is closed.
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- The getty process gets stuck in <exiting> mode.
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- While tracing the getty process I see a call to 'auditsys', which I
- neither make explicitly nor is it documented in the manual pages.
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- The system call takes four arguments and seems to return an interger
- value, which coincidentally was my user id.
-
- Anyway, unsticking these stuck ports usually requires a boot. Anybody
- that can tell me a way to unstick them without booting, well I'd appreciate
- it.
-
- Alternately, a fix that keeps them from sticking in the first place would
- be nice. This was not a frequent problem under SUN/OS 3.5, but from 4.0 on it
- has been real pain. I am on 4.1.1_U1 and it is still a problem.
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