[Gllug] Spawning too fast

[George Saxby]

Thanks Kim this sorta works but appears to lock all other consols excet
the one I am on to get functionality back I had to re-boot and the spawn
is back as is an un-editted inittab.
  Seems like I have to get to inittab's predecessor which is calling up
a re-write or old master of inittab.

George F. Saxby
    Systems Engineer
       I.T.S. Team

>>> kim at aldigital.co.uk 02/08/02 11:44am >>>
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:30:02AM +0000, George Saxby wrote:
>        After a few moments I get an error on any text consol I am
> working on that says "S" is spawning too fast & is being shutting
down
> for 5 mins.
>   tracked this down to inittab and editted out the offending line:-
> 
>   S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1
> 
> by putting a # in the beggining.
> 
> However this ploy does not work even though immediately checking
after
> a save the line is editted, "the system" seems to re-write the file.
>          How do I make the edit stick OR just stop the "S" starting
up
> at all

after editing /etc/inittab, run "init q" as root. this should force
init to
re-read the file and start or kill the running gettys.

yours,

kim
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