Console on serial

[froh@fsb.gotdns.org (Frode Haugsgjerd)]

I got a headless server running Sarge, where i have configured init to 
launch a getty on ttyS0 like this in /etc/inittab:
T1:S12345:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 38400 linux

This have worked just fine, connecting with minicom from a workstation.
But when /var became nearly full, and i changed to init 1 to move /var 
to a larger partition, my console shut down.

The script /etc/init.d/single kills all processes, then switches to 
single user mode, and executes the line "~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin" in 
inittab but not the getty on the serial console. I have read the 
manpages init and inittab, and can't see why my entry fails to start.
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Frode Haugsgjerd
Norway