From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Port respawning too fast Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 08:10:20 GMT
In article <c9108932.748118004@peach.newcastle.edu.au> c9108932@peach.newcastle.edu.au (Simon J Ferrett) writes:
>levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>>I can log on, work, then log off, however on my consople I get the message:
>>Respawning too fast. Port disabled for 5 minutes
>>And then 5 minutes later it says the same thine.
>>Anyone know how I can fix this? I am using .99pl12.
>yes I had this exact problem, which is caused when the serial port
>is hung up by getty, it drops the DTR (which, since its a null modem),
>drops carrier) and gived getty a HUP causing it to quit.
>I got around this my slightly modifying serial.c so that it didnt ever
>hang up a serial port. (no hardware of mine needs it)
Don't do this! All you need to do is to include CLOCAL in your gettydefs.
This turns off the carrier detect and hangups in software. Much easier -
and it works for other Unices too.
Alan