Binand Raj S. saw fit to inform me that: 
>Dempo Mail forced the electrons to say:
>> After starting getty for ttyW0..10 devices I am getting login prompt on the
>> dumb terminals and I can even login  to the Red Hat server. However on the
>> server I am getting the following error :
>> 
>> INIT:Id "W8" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes.
>
>Rajesh, one specialix card has 8 IO ports - ttyW[0-7]. getty fails to
>initialize the remaining, and exits, init respawning it.
>
>Remove the inittab entry for ttyW8, ttyW9 and ttyW10.

Sorry Binand. I realised this after posting the mail. Promptly removed the above 
entries. Everything works fine.

>
>> Another thing is that if I load 'mc' on dumb terminal and use function keys
>> it is not working. What else is required to be done so that function keys
>> F1..F10 start working on dumb terminals.
>
>Hmm... Try changing the TERM environment variable - setting it to dumb,
>then to vt100, vt102, and later linux-m. One of them should perform
>ideally for you.
>
>Then again, that is for display - I don't know what to do for keyboards.

I have work on this tomorrow as well as iBCS module stuff. Let's see.

Thanks

Regards

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