mgetty respawning too fast...

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Hi,

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there are just more clueful people than just me :-)

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> 
> I'm using a cyclades board with 16 dialup lines.. I keep getting these
> errors posted to console.. it's driving me nuts :-( any ideas? 
> 
> these are some of the lines from inittab
> 
> d0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 -D /dev/ttyC0
> d1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 -D /dev/ttyC1
> d2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 -D /dev/ttyC2
> d3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 -D /dev/ttyC3
> d4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 38400 -D /dev/ttyC4
> 
> if this is *wrong* please set me straight

Basically, this looks ok.

> the error in syslog says this in lots of places..
> 
> Jul 23 16:43:09 castle mgetty[670]: failed in mg_init_data, dev=ttyC10,
> pid=670

Look into the mgetty log file, *why* it is failing.  It could fail because
of driver problems (make sure that you get the LATEST Cyclades driver, AND
that you compile it with gcc-2.7.2.3, do NOT use egcs or gcc 2.8.x), or
just because it sends some command that the modem doesn't like.

> I'm wondering if it was a compile error... I'm confused

Show the logs.

gert

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