Respawning forever in 5 minute increments during system startup

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Hi,

On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:35:51PM -0800, 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.
> 
> Hi Gert, got a moment?

No, but usually people ask nevertheless.

> So I added the line:
> m2:2345:respawn:/bin/mgetty tty*S*2

Argh, the "*" characters have been put there for emphasis - only "ttyS2"
is required here.

> to inittab then, thanks to your encouragement, said 'telinit q'
> The system came back with "m2 respawnning too fast: Disabled for 5 minutes."
> I also tried ttyS2 which is in my /dev directory (tty*S*2 is not).
> Same result, only this time I could put it back together without having to reload
> my system.  Thanks!!

So, if it doesn't work, let's look at the log file.  "mgetty -V" will
tell you where that one can be found (call it from the command line, for
that, not from /etc/inittab).  Putting "-x5" on the inittab command line
will make sure that stuff is logged.

gert
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