[NTLUG:Discuss] What's up with this?

[Greg Hewett]

Look in your /etc/inittab and there is a line intigates the mgetty.  You can
either comment it out if it is using ttyS* (serial).  

I am not sure if mgetty can be used as a console, but if it using tty1 - tty5,
then you do not want to comment it out.

Just pulling your modem would not have fixed this because inittab tells it to
"respawn"  (a.k.a infinite loop if something is broke).

Greg

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:15:41AM -0600, Carter B. Bennett wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a Alpha 600Mhz PC running RH 6.0 for almost a year now, running good. We
> moved our computer room last weekend and ever sence then I am getting :
> 
> INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/mgetty"
> 
> about 7 to 10 times, then a line that says:
> 
> INIT: Id "0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> 
> Someone said it had something to do with the modem, so I powered down yanked
> the modem and rebooted the box and I'm still getting the sams thing.
> 
> I would love to get a fix for this, Thanks
> 
> 
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> Carter B. Bennett
> The Dunlap Company
> 200 Baily Ave.
> Fort Worth, TX 76107
> 
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> 
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