inittab respawing too fast and disabled

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 09:49:09 +0200


Hi,

On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 10:31:44AM +0530, C.Jagadish wrote:
> But still I have the problem of 
>   "INIT Id s2: respwaning too fast diabled for 5 minutes".

So what does the mgetty log file say?

> I am running mgetty as follows
> 
>    s2:12345:respawn:/usr/local/bin/mgetty -D -x2 /dev/ttyS1

Use -x5, and look at the log file...

gert
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