mgetty doesn't respawn

Jochen Erwied (nospam@joker.e.ruhr.de)
15 Jan 2000 1922:38:43 +0100


Borries Demeler <demeler@bioc09.v19.uthscsa.edu> wrote:

> d3:12345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -x 3 -s 115200 /dev/ttyS3

> and ran /sbin/init q

> But mgetty never loads. And nothing is written to the logfile.
> Even after rebooting it doesn't load.

What does a 'grep initdefault /etc/inittab' give?

Not by chance runlevel 6?

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