On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 08:54:17AM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> My copy of the agetty man page doesn't mention a switch for setting the
> respawn rate (which would be governed by init, not agetty, in any case -
> no?). What switch do you mean?
>
> In any case, I *think* this advice is mistaken. Rapid respawning is
> inherently an error condition on serial lines; it means that the agetty
> process is starting, terminating, and returning control to init (which then
> starts the cycle again) almost instantly -- the system log (usually
> /var/log/messages) will report this condition and, with luck, its cause. You
> need to find and fix the problem.
Amen!
I've a modem that flakes out from time to time (##$! cheap chipset!)
and requires power cycle to restore it to sanity. Nothing you can
say to the modem, nor anything you can do to its control lines, has
any effect.
I usually notice the modem is acting up from the console log message
about respawning too fast.
--
Dan Wilder
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