RE: why inittab respawing too fast and disabled

[Jones, David T]

> 
> > d2:respawn:12345:/sbin/agetty -i 'ATQE0Q1S0=1' -mt60 38400 
> ttyS1 vt100
> > 
> > and I did a "init q". It started giving message "d2: 
> respawning too fast
> > disabled for 5 minutes". 
> 
> Your agetty isn't running properly. Have you tried the line 
> manually to
> see if it's working properly?

try /sbin/agetty -I <init string> instead of -i.

Regards,

Dave.