From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: Here's an interesting error for ya! Date: 1 Feb 1993 10:36:53 -0600
cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) writes:
>This one here happened to me late last night for no obvious reason. Does
>anyone know what this reason may be?
>" Jan 30 02:50:26 init[1]: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes. "
>I'm at a loss!
>cak
>ps. I suppose I should mention that it happened after I logged out from the
>root account...
This happens when you attempt to run getty on a line that keeps dropping it.
Init will give up now, instead of taking 60% of the cpu just to respawn
getty.
James