This may sound like a complicated issue, but I don't know where to ask
it. I'm having and odd problem. For some reason, RedHat did not
include getty_ps with 7.2 (or any of the 7.x series). So after
installing 7.2 I had problems with agetty and decided to try using the
rpm from 6.2 of getty_ps on 7.2. It seemed to work fine. But after a
while I started getting weird looking logs. Let me go ahead and state
this. I am using Wyse 160 terminals connected via a Cyclades Yep
serial port expander. This has worked for us for a long time, and we
never had this problem (matter of fact, I don't even expericnce this
problem with 7.2 and agetty, just when using the 6.2 package). Now so
far you're probably thinking what does this have to do with pam. Well,
the log entries I get ONLY happen when all the terminals are turned off.
They look like this:
Jan 11 17:32:28 gulf login(pam_unix)[9736]: bad username
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That in itself is not so bad, but this continues for nearly a day until
the system LOCKS UP. I can't explain this because I have no idea, but
as far as I can tell, PAM is using up some system resources until they
are gone. Doesn't make sense to me. Myabe someone can help me from
here. I'll use agetty, but I can't figure out how to tell it to use
only software flow control and not hardware, and set option like I could
with getty_ps with /etc/gettydefs. Agetty doesn't have a config file so
I can't figure out how to do it other than manually set them after
someone logs in everytime.
Thanks for any help you can give. This is plauging us very much.
dime@gulfsales
Glover George
Gulf Sales & Supply, Inc.
