-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/12/04 6:10 PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: [snip] > If you are using debian unstable and still being driven crazy by getting > the "respawning too fast; disabled for 5 minutes" when you log out, the > util-linux package from testing doesn't have this problem and, for the > time being anyway, still appears to be compatible with unstable. Here is a link to a post about the respawning problem on debian-user. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200104/msg00256.html The long and short of it is to add -L to the getty lines in /etc/inittab after getty and before 38400. Switching to mingetty will also work. - -- Clarke's Corollary: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAUl//5JK61UXLur0RAsalAJ9SRH2U/HykhtkSf1bT8GqoqbvhFQCfZivS UFJsoO8TL03G+qX9Q7ufwPw= =W2T6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----