mgetty restarting

sidra · 09-12-2007, 01:22 PM

Hi all,

I'm trying to set up a dial-in server on my linux box. I configured everything according to this article:

http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_dialin_server

I do a 'ps -aux | grep mgetty', every couple of seconds it shows a different pid, it means that it's crashing and init is restarting it. I don't know why this is happening. The output of ps is:

[root@Primary ~]# ps -aux | grep mgetty
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ
root 8471 0.0 0.1 2132 640 ? Ss 11:18 0:00 /sbin/mgetty -D ttyS0
root 8473 0.0 0.1 5456 644 pts/2 S+ 11:19 0:00 grep mgetty

In /var/log/messages i get:

Sep 12 11:11:12 Primary init: Id "S2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Sep 12 11:11:12 Primary init: Id "S1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Sep 12 11:11:13 Primary init: Id "S3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Sep 12 11:15:40 Primary init: Id "swbm" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Sep 12 11:16:21 Primary init: Id "S1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Sep 12 11:16:21 Primary init: Id "S2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Sep 12 11:16:21 Primary init: Id "S3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes

I'm not sure what is going on. Does anyone have a clue? When i try dialing in there is no tone probably because mgetty is restarting.

pejman · 09-13-2007, 05:27 AM

I think you have only one modem connected to ttyS0 (COM1) of your linux machine, but you configured 4 modems in /etc/inittab so if this is right, remove these lines from /etc/inittab :

Code:

S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D ttyS1
S2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D ttyS2
S3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D ttyS3

And keep only this one :

Code:

S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D ttyS0

Finally reload inittab with one of these commands :

Code:

# init q
or
# /sbin/telinit q

Now error messages in /var/log/messages must be disappear.

sidra · 09-13-2007, 01:06 PM

Thanks, my problem is solved! I have a dial in server set up!