From: mark@datasoft.north.net (Mark Buckaway) Subject: Re: getty - respawn problem Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1993 10:36:24 GMT
totake@ho10.eng.ua.edu wrote:
: I have a problem with running getty for dial in. After about 5 minuts
: I get the following message:
: ID "c7" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes
: The entry for dial in in inittab is :
: c7:56:respawn:/bin/getty ttyS2 9600 vt100
: Can anybody tell me what I have to do to fix it?
I had this problem when I first installed Linux. There are two
possibilities:
1) You have the wrong version is init. This through me for a loop for
about two weeks.
2) You have an error in your chat script for your modem. If the chat
script fails, so does uugetty and then error message occurs.
To determine WHAT the problem is, setup an /etc/default/getty.ttyS2
file that specifies DEBUG=777. This will cause getty to dump LOTS of
debug info into /tmp/getty:ttyS2. You can look at this file to see
what is going wrong. If you see something like ERROR OPENING STANDARD
INPUT then init is broken. Otherwise, it dumb what is happening.
In my case, my T1000 was set for carrier detect always on and this
caused uugetty (I use this for my modem line) to think someone was
online when there really wasn't. It assumed this as soon as it started
and it failed. Anyways, changing this made it work.
Hope this helps.
Mark