Command respawning too rapidly.

[Jeffrey F. Goldsmith]

I had to reboot my L2000 server yesterday afternoon. At the time my dial-in modem was turned off. When my system was back up I started to get this error:

INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly.
Will try again in 5 minutes.
Check for possible errors.
id: a0 "/usr/lbin/uucp/getty -h ttyd2a1 19200"

We thought that because the modem was turned off we were getting the errors so we turned the modem back on. We are still getting the error.

What do I need to do to have the error message stop.

[Helen French]

1) Check if your modem port is working and connected properly. Is your modem working?

2) If you don't want to use the modem and need to stop this message, edit /etc/inittab file (make a copy before you edit it) and replace 'respawn' with 'off' on the specific line. After editing, run 'init q'.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

check your /etc/rc.log to find more.
Check you /etc/inittab getty definitions

are you sure the device file is correct?
lssf /dev/ttyd2a1
ioscan -fnk and look for the modem.

[Keith Bevan_1]

Jeff,

Until you find the source of the problem you can also comment out the troublesome entry in the etc/inittab file :-

#id:a0 "/usr/lbin/uucp/getty -h ttyd2a1 19200"

and Re-examine the inittab entries without changing the run level :-

init q

At least this will stop multiple console and log file entries until you get the issue fixed.

Keith

[Mark Grant]

A slightly better approach to commenting out the line in /etc/inittab is to change it from "respawn" to "off". Only because that's what the "off" field is for.

[Bruno Ganino]

Jeff, try to edit /etc/inittab.
Set in device(modem) the option -t
example:/sbin/getty [-hN] [-t timeout] line [speed]
Save the change and exit
Then exec command: init q

HTH
Bruno