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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: respawning problem, 4.0.5
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Sep10.133440.8153@biome.bio.ns.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:52:34 GMT
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- In <1992Sep10.133440.8153@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
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- | Since I installed IRIX 4.0.5 my console has been displaying the message
- |
- | INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
- | id: co "/etc/gl/conslog"
- |
- | every few minutes. This basically makes the console window unusable
- | and obscures any other messages that might appear there, so it is a
- | real nuisance.
- |
- | I imagine that the problem relates to the following line in /etc/inittab:
- |
- | co:23:respawn:/etc/gl/conslog
- |
- | but the file /etc/gl/conslog doesn't exist, and even the directory
- | /etc/gl is absent. Is this something I should have installed but missed?
-
- conslog was a 3.3 program. You shouldn't have put it back into inittab
- after you upgraded. It isn't needed or wanted any more.
-
- | They seem to think that it is a modem problem, but since they only call
- | after 17:00 here when I am getting ready to go home, we haven't had much
-
- Are you sure you gave them the name of the program and the fact that you
- were at 4.0.X? They *should* have recognized this one.
-
- I'll forward this to the support folks, to remind them.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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