I'll give that a try, but I'm curious. If I change those lines to say off instead of respawn the system will leave them alone on a reboot, but if those lines are deleted from the inittab file they will get recreated?
As always...thanks! Cameron On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Osborne, Richard <[email protected]>wrote: > My co-worker the AIX admin says change the word ‘respawn’ to ‘off’ in > inittab. This will prevent the system from recreating the devices when the > machine reboots & runs hardware detection. > > > > HTH. > > > > > > *From:* Cameron [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 05, 2010 11:37 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* OT: Unix pains > > > > Good afternoon all! > > > > I know there are a few *nix gurus out there, so I'm hoping someone can > point me in the right direction. I have a faxing program that is trying to > allocate resources to physical faxes but it causes a segmentation fault. > > > > I've tried deleting the two lines in the /etc/inittab file that are causing > me the grief and that will actually allow me to re-enable the two faxes but > when the box is restarted...bam...they are back! (I've also tried commenting > them out with the same results) > > > > Version AIX 5.3 > > > > The lines are (within /etc/inittab) > > > > tty3:2:respawn: /usr/sbin/getty /dev/tty3 > > tty4:2:respawn: /usr/sbin/getty /dev/tty4 > > > > How do I stop them from reappearing? > > > > TIA! > > Cameron > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
