Re: mgetty problem

On 31 Jul 2007 at 14:29, Carl wrote:

> Beginner wrote:
> > Hi Admins,
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Found it. Here is the line I added yeas ago:

# Added by DP for modem use
# respawn off by DP on 31-07-07
S3:345:off:/sbin/mgetty -x3 ttyS0

> 
> Most likely you need to turn off the respawn of the mgetty process in
> /etc/inittab.
> 
> Check /etc/inittab for a line that looks something like:
> 
>      ttyS0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty dev=ttyS0 baud=19200
> 
> Yours will be different as i haven't run mgetty for years but it will
> reference mgetty (not mingetty, getty, agetty or uugetty). You need to
> change the "respawn" field in the line to be "off" and then tell init
> to re-read inittab with "telinit q" as root.


Should I HUP init now for the change to take effect? Thanx,
Dp.