mingetty respawing too fast

[Laurent de Segur <ldesegur@mac.com>]

Hi,

On 2.4.12 and up, I get a lot of "respawing too fast" for id 2-6, "disabling
for 5 mins" messages. I looked in my /etc/inittab and the process for these
ids was  assigned to mingetty. Switching to getty for those solved the
problem (I don't see these spurious messages on the console), but I was
wondering if I need to give some peculiar option(s) on the inittab lines to
avoid this error and to be able to continue using mingetty, which I really
like for getting rid of the obnoxious penguin logo after startup.

Thanks for your help in advance,


LdS