init/login problems

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Try these solutions. First, check permitions on /dev/tty<n> where <n> is the 
number of the tty. Second, ensure teh lines in inittab read correctly.

c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux

Increment the number for each console. There are two problems I see with 
your example. First, list the terminal type (linux). Second, use agetty not 
getty. Finally, root logins won't work unless all of the tty's you want to 
login in as root from are listed in /etc/securetty
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From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:34 PM
Subject: init/login problems


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> 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
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> 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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