On 3/31/08, Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 05:31:14PM -0700, kewlemer wrote: > > In a line like - > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 9600 tty1 > > can anyone tell me what "9600" means? > > > > I'm asking this because in the UML book I found - > > 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > > > It's a baud rate, and it's irrelevant for UML. > Thanks for the clarifications Jeff.
> > > I didn't understand what 38400 was for and adding this line in inittab > > caused this error - > > "INIT: Id 0 respawning too fast" > > > 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 > > > The "3" at the start should match the tty<n> at the end. So that > should have been tty3, not tty1 there. > > > > So in short can someone please tell me what I need to have in my > > inittab so that I can access a UML console using the screen program on > > host ? > > > Fix the tty number and it should work. > My bad - sorry this is what I have - 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 I still get this error - NIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty" INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty" INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Any pointers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, KM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
