DS3100 Login problems

[Eric Fielding]

In a recent article rgc at wam.umd.edu (Ross Garrett Cutler) wrote:
>	We have a DS3100 w/8 MB of RAM, Ultrix 3.1d, running DECWindows.
>We are having login problems of the following sort:
>	1. If you login from the console after it hasn't been used for
>	   several hours, it let's you enter your user-id, pw, then
>	   churns away for 15 seconds...and then comes back to the 
>	   login prompt!  It requires several attempts to login successfully.
>...
>so I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this strange occurence.  
>I have verified that $term is indeed none after some period of console
>inactivity.  Ross.

We have the same problem here on a 12 MB DECstation.  It seems to help alot to
hit the "clear" button on the login window before trying to log in.  I think
that someone said that it had to do with some process getting swapped out 
perhaps several months ago when there were some postings on this.  I never
looked at the $term variable.  There was also a suggestion that there was
a timer that counts the time between typing the user name and password that
denies access if the time is too long.  And if things are moving slowly due
to paging or swapping, then it is more likely to happen.

			++Eric Fielding
eric at geology.tn.cornell.edu