Problems with rlogin

[King Ables]

> 	Recently, a strange problem has cropped up with rlogin.  We've got
> a Vax-11/750 running 4.2BSD and a bunch of Sun-3's running Sun 3.0 Unix.
> One of our Sun-3/50's (adenine) can't rlogin to the vax.  It used to work
> fine, but then for no apparant reason it stopped working.  Rebooting
> adenine seemed to have fixed the problem, but then it came back.  The
> symptoms are:

I've seen the same problem here.  The only clue I've had the time
to find is that it has something to do with a process left around
from an old login.  If I rlogin to my Vax from a Sun3 and something
happens (the window dies, or you quit suntools w/o logging out, perhaps,
I don't know because I haven't been able to reproduce it) then you
get a job hanging around on the Vax that says it's coming from the
Sun, but the sun no longer has it.  Once you kill the process on the
vax, then you can rlogin from the sun again.  It's almost as if something
is saying "no, you already have one of those, you can't have two"
which is crazy since you can have multiple rlogins from a sun under
normal circumstances.

We haven't had time to try to figure it out and since we have a
work-around now, it hasn't been a big inconvenience (it only
happens rarely, anyway).  However, I'd sure love to know why it does.

-King
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