> >Frederic: try installing mingetty (uses less mem and CPU anyway), then > >change all the lines in inittab to use mingetty. This should both solve > >the problem and help you w/ resources. ... > packages are done installing. I'm curious, is getty, mingetty, etc, even > slightly necessary? Realistically, I wont be using a modem... this was
Getty is the process that prints "Login:" (or whatever) on your virtual consoles; it's used for normal logins, not (usually) modem lines. ('mgetty' is more commonly used for modem lines; it has a lot of nice features for managing them.) Replacing 'getty' with a different getty is fine, but you should also try to understand what problem caused init to be unable to run the particular getty process. The "disabling for 5 minutes" is just init's way to not waste a lot of resources when something it's supposed restart keeps dying. The solution is to find out (by looking at /etc/inittab) why it's trying to run something, why that thing is dying, and fixing the situation (perhaps by taking the line out of inittab.) -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]