kmcvay@icgnu.UUCP (Ken McVay [1B Systems Management]) (08/02/90)
I am working on a system with a Telebit T1000 assigned to tty1A, and locked at 9600 baud. The line is used for inbound and outbound connects. It looks as if the getty is spawning a lock file for tty1a which prevents use of the line for outbound calls. The file appears every minute or two as /usr/spool/uucp/LCK..tty1a, and the process id it contains is always the one owned by root that provides tty1A for the system. If I zap it, another is soon created. tty1a is disabled in /etc/ttys. What's causing this annoying little beastie, and where should I look for the error in the system?