From: James Michael Chacon (probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu)
Date: 02/01/93


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