Silly eh ?
Anders
>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
>
> > > So, all my old scripts are executed. So far so good. The real trouble is that AFTER these
> > > scripts are done, there comes ..silence.. for about 10 seconds. Next thing I see is 6 lines
> > > of error messages saying "INIT": "1": respawning too fast; disabled for 5 min. This is then
> > > repeated with "2", "3", "4" and "5". Then nothing...
> > >
> >
> > > # Format:
> > > # <id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>
> > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty1
> > > 2:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty2
> > > 3:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty3
> > > 4:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty4
> >
> >
> > ## 5:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty5
> > ## 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty6
> >
> > I've seen the same thing with my ancient version of sys V init. Just comment out the
> > last two lines. For some reason, my system does not want to cooperate with more than
> > (4) consoles.
> >
> or use agetty instead:
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> 2:23:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
> 3:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> 4:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> 5:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> 6:2:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
>
> working fine for me.
>
> jeff
> ---
> Why Linux? source code. POSIX. tcpip. job control. support from the authors.
> drivers for most hardware. because one terminal or process is never enough.
> forget the other O/Ss, i use Linux- the choice of a GNU generation.
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