init/login problems

[Igor Gueths]

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Hi there. Upon further examination of syslog entries, I realize now that 
getty is complaining of a missing /etc/ttytype file. This file never 
existed to begin with. Any way I can perhaps create one? I've tried 
several different forms of syntax and getty appears to not like it.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:00:10PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> The example you show differs slightly from what I have in my slackware
> 9.1 inittab file:
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> c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
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> Greg
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> 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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