Thanks for the quick response Roger (and others).
Would you be able to either let me know what you used
instead of mingetty (a snippet from inittab would be
perfect!) or pass the mingetty patch on to me.
Much appreciated.
--- "Roger W.Brown" <bregor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ashley Smith has written:
>
> "I've hit a problem when trying to change inittab
> from:
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> to:
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty vc/2
> When I do this and restart, I get the following
> message at the login prompt:
> init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes"
>
>
> I recall solving this problem, some time ago, my
> making
> minor changes to the mingetty code. In the end, I
> gave
> up using mingetty, as I have to confess that I was
> not
> certain that my fix was valid and that it would
> stand
> the test of time.
>
> I should be able to locate the patch, if it is
> important.
>
> --
> Roger Brown
>
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