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From: ins_anmy@jhunix.UUCP (Norman Yarvin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Hayes modem & AT&T 3b2
Message-ID: <5853@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 87 03:03:44 GMT
References: <2394@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: ins_anmy@jhunix.UUCP (Norman Yarvin)
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In article <2394@dasys1.UUCP> samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>I'm trying to get a Hayes smartmodem 1200 setup for dialins AND dialouts
>on a 3b2/300 running System V Release 2. I have a PD mgetty (modem getty)
>program that is supposed to provide this capability, but I get the error
>'mgetty respawning too fast' when I try.

This message comes from init.  Init respawns certain processes whenever they
die. (those processes which have a respawn entry in /etc/inittab) If init
has to respawn any process more than 10 times in 2 minutes, it will print an
error message and refuse to respawn it again for another 5 minutes.  Thus if
there is a syntax error in the command, it will not be respawned
continuously and eat cpu time.

Thus your program mgetty is dying a lot.

				Norman Yarvin
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