From: miquels@caution.cistron.nl.mugnet.org (Miquel van Smoorenburg) Subject: Re: [Q]: inittab problem Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 23:42:02
In article <cam.744512811@ss1> cam@adied.oz.au (Cameron) writes:
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>my inittab has line as follows:
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>S1:respawn:/bin/getty ttyS16 DT9600 vt100
>
>
>Why doesn't init like it if I change S1 to S16 ? It complains that there
>is an error in the inittab file if I put
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>S16:respawn:/bin/getty ttyS16 DT9600 vt100
>
>Why?
>
>- cameron.
This is because the 'id' field (the first field) has a maximum of
two characters. There is not much to be done about this, because
the 'id' field is also a part of the utmp structure used in the
utmp and wtmp logfiles, and it has a maximum size of 2 characters.
Try to use something else than S16 that has two characters.
Mike.