Getty - help please!

[Tim Medford]

I just recovered a server at our disaster site. It is the same basic hardware as our real production system. I used an ignite-ux tape to upgrade the hardware (k420) to hpux 11.0.

I'm getting a message:

getty: cannot open "ttyd0p7". errno 2

this pops up on the screen about every minute and is very distruptive. The server is also rebooting itself for no reason, but that may be unrelated.

Any suggestions??

Thanks!

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

check /etc/inittab for the entry with the ttyd0p7 and comment the line or replace 'respawn' with 'off'.
After that do an init -q

Regards

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA · Accepted solution]

Hi Tim

Actually respawn starts ( getty ) generally on this port , so after you change it to off also please do a ps -ef | grep tty0p7 and kill any getty's associated with this port since that must be already started .This would stop the message coming , then you can go and further debug.

Manoj Srivastava

[Tim Medford]

Thanks a bunch, that fixed it!