Re: getty, "Id "S" respawning too fast"

["Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>]

On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:26:10 +0100 (CET), Marcin Bie kowski wrote:

>Usage: /sbin/getty [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I
>initstring] [-H login_host] baud_rate,... line [termtype]
>or      [-hiLmw] [-l login_program] [-t timeout] [-I initstring] [-H
>login_host] line baud_rate,... [termtype]
>--- this four lines repeated couple of times ---
>INIT: Id "S" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>---
>
>I know, that responsible for that is this line in /etc/inittab :
>S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1

As you see above the usage for the getty command is as follows:

S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty 19200 ttyS1

This should make getty happy and keep it from respawning.


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