> story: then i left
> puttytel running, with no other login (nothing on
> serial console) and
> forgot about it after a while. No more than 2 hours
> later the vax
> crashed. I hooked up a serial console and i saw it
> crashed to the >>>
> prompt, while doing nothing ?!?!

Sometimes a break or framing error will cause a halt.
When you say you hooked up a serial console does that
mean it was running without a cable ? Had you turned
off the terminal or rebooted the pc that is the
console ? I seem to remember that you can change this
behavior with a console command.

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