a couple of login tips

[Thomas Stivers]

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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.

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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