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From: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Adding extra console window gettys: maybe not a good idea
Message-ID: <162@manta.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 09:10:28 EST
Article-I.D.: manta.162
Posted: Wed Nov 11 09:10:28 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 17:24:18 EST
References: <750@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia
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In article <750@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>A while back somebody posted a suggestion of adding more gettys in
>/etc/inittab to permit several logins at the same time on the
>console. [...] I tried the suggestion, and it seemed to work for a
>while.  After a few days, the machine crashed inexplicably. [...]
>I came to the conclusion it must have something to do with the
>changes to /etc/inittab. [...] I returned /etc/inittab back
>to the default configuration, and everything has been fine since.

It's an interesting theory, but it certainly isn't reproduced on my
machine.  I'm also running 3.51 and have added an extra console to
/etc/inittab.  This configuration has been working for several months.
How many extra consoles did you add?  Maybe there's some upper bound.
I tend to doubt it's a hardware problem, since I can't see how
restoring inittab would have relieved such a failure.  Nevertheless,
I suppose you've run the diagnostics (for whatever they're worth)?
-- 
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant