getty keeps dying

[BURNS,JIM]

in article <1990Jul6.171544.10473 at mthvax.cs.miami.edu>, max at mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Max Southall) says:
> When it's a real port, it disables it ... very annoying.
> This is just with a couple of external ports for dial-in - no custom
> software!

This sounds like an intermittent carrier detect. (Getty would try to re-
establish itself in that case, and probably cause a race condition on the
port.) Isn't there a timeout value you can set for CD drops?
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