init/login problems

[Gregory Nowak]

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The example you show differs slightly from what I have in my slackware
9.1 inittab file:

c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux

Greg


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:34:57PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. i just installed Slackware-9.1. After finding out that dhclient 
> was broken, I used dhcpcd and got an IP from the router over here. 
> However, I noticed that only 5 ttys were enabled, so I edited inittab 
> just like I did on my previous Debian system to add 6 more consoles. The 
> syntax in inittab is: console:1235:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 <tty>. 
> Example: c6:1235:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
> 
> And I did this for all 12 ttys. Granted, I got the 12 
> consoles...However, I can't login as root in consoles 6-12, nor can I 
> login as user (the account being igueths). All the other accounts I 
> created could login just fine. Could my problem be something with the 
> UID's not being set propperly? Also, init is periodically respawning 
> process when it shouldn't be i.e., I get messages about certain consoles 
> respawning too fast. Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this? Quite 
> honestly, I've never seen this type of behavior before on a pretty much 
> newly installed system. Thanks!
> spawning too fa
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