NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/unix/sysv386/12376

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From: [e-mail] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: uugetty -> too many respawns???
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:59:02 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting
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[e-mail] writes:
>01:23:respawn:/sbin/uugetty -r -t 60 19200NP
>
>and issue a 'init q' command, I get a msg back from the system telling me that
>there is something wrong; that the process is respawning too fast for the

That means that the command failed for some reason.  When a command fails it
exits of course so init restarts it.  It is able to recognize that this is
happening much too fast and so it tells you.

When you see this error you should try to run the command (everything in
the last colon-delimited field) manually to see what the error message
is.  In this case (assuming that your system is like my Esix SVR4) you
should get a "not found" error since uugetty is in /usr/bin.  However
even after fixing that you will still get an error that it can't open
"19200NP" suggesting the other problem here - you haven't named a port.

>any ideas?  if i change the uugetty to getty, and drop the '-r -t 60', I
>have a working input line.

Are you sure you didn't have another line and simply swapped "respawn"
and "off" between them?

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