Respawning forever in 5 minute increments during system startup

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hi,

On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 07:35:05PM +0100, Rick Brown wrote:
> When I change the 1st inittab line from above to:
> 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1
  ^  don't make that an "1", use something *unique* here.

"man inittab" is your friend.

> When I change the 2nd line from above to:
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty tty2

Don't run mgetty on tty2, run it on tty*S*2.

> When I change the 2nd line to:
> 2:2345:off::/sbin/mgetty tty2
> the system starts, but ‘ps' does not show mgetty as an active process.

Sure - you have switched it off. :)

[..]
> As I have to completely reload the system after each unsuccessful test I
> am becoming discouraged.

Why would you want to reboot?  "man init" is your friend, just call
"telinit q" after you change something.

I'd get a decend Linux book (from the local library) and read up on
/etc/inittab and related stuff.  It's not that hard, but can be a bit
tricky.

gert

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