CUPS, printcodes, stale UTMP entries, and terminal hangs

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Only Patowic would say something like:
> I have resolved this issue.  It was a bug in openssh-3.8p1.  Ironically, 

You can't trust that as the real version number.  Hell, 9.0 still reports a
3.7pl2 but it's got all the security backports.  Most linux vendors stick
with the base product number and simply bump the rpm version when they do
something.  The scheme sucks.

> appears uninterested in fixing this bug, which appears only in SuSE 9.1. 
>   One can, however, grab RPMs from SuSE 9.2, and install them on a 9.1 

Nobody should be running 9.1 or 9.2 unless they -NEED- kernel 2.6 or one
of the other features that's only workable under the newer dists.  It's
still at least six months before I'll start trusting that kernel.  Last I
saw, it was up to 2.8.10, so only 8 more patchlevels to go...

They don't release them like they used to.

> box without incident.  For those of a technical bent, it has to do with 
> the 2.6 kernel using pseudo-tty numbers in excess of 999.  If you'd 

*cough*  The prosecution rests.

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