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From: Amit Dor-Shifer <amitds@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:30:31
Message-Id: 4BD3E14D.3020204@oversi.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I control ttyS0 respawning speed? by Jarry
1 Jarry wrote:
2 > On 21. 4. 2010 9:43, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
3 >> Jarry wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 ttyS0 vt100
6 >>> It mostly works, with one exception: right after boot-up
7 >>> I get this message:
8 >>>
9 >>> INIT: ID "s0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
10 >>>
11 >>> How can I control that respawn speed, or prohibit this
12 >>> behavior (disabling ttyS0 for 5min)? I do not like waiting
13 >>> 5min to log in, after I restarted server...
14 >>>
15 >> Don't know the answer to yr question. But I'm also not sure if you're
16 >> asking the right question.
17 >> When I last saw "respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes", it was
18 >> actually an issue with the spawned process not being able to start. I'm
19 >> therefore suggesting you'd want to consider checking why agetty cannot
20 >> run, rather than working around init's behavior.
21 >> Amit
22 >
23 > You may be right, but I did not find any clue as why is agetty
24 > spawning too fast. I just noticed it happens only during boot-up,
25 > with probability about 1:5. Maybe some starting processes are
26 > conflicting with agetty. I do not think it is very serious problem,
27 > as agetty on ttyS0 is always respawned after those 5min. All I want
28 > is to reduce somehow those 5min time...
29 >
30 > Jarry
31 >
32 Well then, as far as I can see, the 5 min. timeout is hard-coded in
33 /sbin/init.
34 Amit