Re: SysVinit (again)

Jonathan H. Pickard (marxmarv@cris.com)
Mon, 29 Apr 1996 02:01:53 -0700 (PDT)

Quoth Steven N. Hirsch:
>
> root wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks
> >
> > So, all my old scripts are executed. So far so good. The real trouble is that AFTER these
> > scripts are done, there comes ..silence.. for about 10 seconds. Next thing I see is 6 lines
> > of error messages saying "INIT": "1": respawning too fast; disabled for 5 min. This is then
> > repeated with "2", "3", "4" and "5". Then nothing...
> >
>
> > # Format:
> > # <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
> > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty1
> > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty2
> > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty3
> > 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty4
>
>
> ## 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty5
> ## 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty6
>
> I've seen the same thing with my ancient version of sys V init. Just comment out the
> last two lines. For some reason, my system does not want to cooperate with more than
> (4) consoles.

getty_ps has its tty and baudrate bass-ackwards from how agetty has it. Try

c1:123:respawn:/sbin/getty tty1 38400 linux gettydefs
c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty tty2 38400 linux gettydefs
c3:3:respawn:/sbin/getty tty3 38400 linux gettydefs
c4:3:respawn:/sbin/getty tty4 38400 linux gettydefs
c5:3:respawn:/sbin/getty tty5 38400 linux gettydefs
c6:3:respawn:/sbin/getty tty6 38400 linux gettydefs
c7:3:respawn:/sbin/getty tty7 38400 linux gettydefs
c8:3:respawn:/sbin/getty tty8 38400 linux gettydefs
c9:3:respawn:/sbin/getty tty9 38400 linux gettydefs

It works for me.

> - Steve
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> |University of Vermont overdoing.." - Hunter S. Thompson |
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-jhp

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