From: Peter MacDonald (pmacdona@sanjuan)
Date: 06/01/93


From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
Subject: Re: Modem problems (inittab/getty/uugetty) ...
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 00:55:11 GMT

In article <gleasokr.738962565@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> gleasokr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Kris Gleason) writes:
>bryan@uhura1.uucp (A. Bryan Curnutt) writes:
>
>>wescott@pleiades.cs.bucknell.edu writes:
>>>
>>><date> <time> init[1]: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
>>>minutes
>>>
>>>c6:6:respawn:/bin/uugetty 19200,14400,9600,4800,2400,1200,300 ttys1
>
>>Since you appear to be using the sysvinit supplied with SLS, this
>>appears to be just plain wrong. Your inittab line needs to look
>>more like
>
>>c6:6:respawn:/etc/uugetty 19200 ttys1
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>careful... if this is getty_ps, it should be
>
> c6:6:respawn:/etc/uugetty ttys1 19200

Actually, the getty_ps supplied with SLS has been modified to accept either
way. This was to avoid having people upgrade, and suddenly find they
can't log in. I will once again forward the patch to gettyps author.
But last time, he didn't adopt it.

Peter