On 31 Jul 2007 at 14:29, Carl wrote: > Beginner wrote: > > Hi Admins, ...snipped 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
