Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help

[sailer@sun10.sep.bnl.gov (Tim Sailer)]

Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> 
> Eugene Sevinian wrote:
> > 3. Make; cp mgetty /sbin; rebot
> > 
> > After this point I get the message
> > "...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min" or something
> > like that. And that is all )-;
> 
> If mgetty is respawning, something larger than ppp is probably wrong--
> it would never have a chance to take a login? Perhaps something you
> did to the config is causing this. Did you change the config file?
> Did you look in /var/log/mgetty/* for error messages?

I've seen this with mgetty trying to initialize a modem that was
not a fax. Add '-D' to the mgetty line in inittab, or (I think)
'data-only' in the mgetty.config file

Tim

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