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Numerous getty errors appearing in /var/log/messages



Hi,

I know this has been mentioned in the last few weeks, well I assume it
was relating to this.  Recently I noticed that /var/log/auth.log was
growing rather quickly.  On looking at this file I notice records which
looks like this:

Feb 15 17:47:03 hantu /sbin/getty[370]: /dev/tty5: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:03 hantu /sbin/getty[371]: /dev/tty6: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:11 hantu /sbin/getty[372]: /dev/tty1: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:12 hantu /sbin/getty[373]: /dev/tty2: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:12 hantu /sbin/getty[374]: /dev/tty3: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:12 hantu /sbin/getty[375]: /dev/tty4: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:13 hantu /sbin/getty[376]: /dev/tty5: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:13 hantu /sbin/getty[377]: /dev/tty6: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:21 hantu /sbin/getty[378]: /dev/tty1: cannot open as
standard input: No such device
Feb 15 17:47:22 hantu /sbin/getty[379]: /dev/tty2: cannot open as
standard input: No such device

I am getting hundreds of these entries.  It is a Sparc 5/85 running
Debian 2.2.  It has no keyboard (which is why I am getting them I think)
and no monitor connected and I communicate to it using SSH.

Was it resolved or was hack suggested to stop this happening?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

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