john.d.smith: > Very new to Linux, ... > periodically i.e. every 5 minutes I get a cascade of bad command faults > and the last line reads, S1 spawning to fast .. pausing for 5 minutes.
The `spawning too fast, pausing 5 minutes' message means that the command at the end of the S1 line in inittab is failing for some reason. My suggestion would be: 1) comment out the S1 line in inittab (ie put a # in front of it) 2) run the command "telinit q" to tell init about it 3) run the command manually, check what error messages it gives, if it's logging anything in /var/log, etc, and fix it so that it runs as it should When you're satisfied that it's OK: 4) undo step (1), adding any necessary modifications to the command 5) run the command "telinit q" again > What is happening exactly, is it because the PCMCIA manager does not > support the modem card? That depends on what the command on the S1 line is, and what error message it gives when you try it manually. HTH Jiri -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with "From ", but no-one remembers why.
