Mgetty Not Running

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:36:33 +0200

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Hi,

On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 03:49:48AM +0200, cnliu@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> My Linux 2.0.34 has mgetty1.1.18 entry in /etc/inittab:
> 
> d1:12345:respawn:/usr/local/sbin/mgetty -D -x2 /dev/ttyS0
> 
> process mgetty is invisible by command "ps -a" after rebooting the OS.

Well, you don't want to reboot, just say "telinit q" after changing
inittab.

Second, make sure that "d1" isn't used for two different entries, because
otherwise init will ignore one of them.

Besides this, it *should* work - check with "man init".

gert
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