Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: SysVinit (again) | From | <> | Date | Thu, 2 May 1996 11:24:09 +0100 (GMT+0100) |
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Solved ... after another VERY close look at the /etc/inittab (copied from the V2.6.0 distribution) I found that the terminal speed was NOT 38400 but 34800 ! So, this typo resulted in a no-match of /etc/gettytab, and a getty dump...
Silly eh ?
Anders
> > On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Steven N. Hirsch wrote: > > > > So, all my old scripts are executed. So far so good. The real trouble is that AFTER these > > > scripts are done, there comes ..silence.. for about 10 seconds. Next thing I see is 6 lines > > > of error messages saying "INIT": "1": respawning too fast; disabled for 5 min. This is then > > > repeated with "2", "3", "4" and "5". Then nothing... > > > > > > > > # Format: > > > # <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process> > > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty1 > > > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty2 > > > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty3 > > > 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty4 > > > > > > ## 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty5 > > ## 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty6 > > > > I've seen the same thing with my ancient version of sys V init. Just comment out the > > last two lines. For some reason, my system does not want to cooperate with more than > > (4) consoles. > > > or use agetty instead: > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux > 3:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux > 4:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux > 5:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux > 6:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux > > working fine for me. > > jeff > --- > Why Linux? source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors. > drivers for most hardware. because one terminal or process is never enough. > forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. > > >
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