Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!bacchus!matt From: matt@bacchus.esa.oz (Matt Atterbury) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: /etc/init problem on sr10.2 YIKES!! Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 00:29:48 GMT References: <9105130048.AA08728@atmos.UMD.EDU> <1147@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> Sender: matt@bacchus.esa.oz.au Organization: Expert Solutions Australia. Lines: 15 In-reply-to: wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl's message of 13 May 91 08:05:12 GMT In article <1147@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> wjw@ebh.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) writes: The problems lies in the serial-lines ... It's a known problem, and comes from init trying to fork a getty ... It's a known problem with every version of UNIX I've used. init tries to spawn a getty, the getty dies coz of trouble opening/reading the port, so init does its job and restarts a new getty. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Atterbury [matt@bacchus.esa.oz.au] Expert Solutions Australia, Melbourne UUCP: ...!uunet!munnari!matt@bacchus.esa.oz.au "klaatu barada nikto" or: ...!uunet!murtoa!bacchus.esa.oz.au!matt "consider this a divorce" ARPA: matt%bacchus.esa.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET "life? don't talk to me about life!"