[plug] Mgetty & INIT

[Andrew Barbara]

Hi Guys,
Im still having this problem, There are no errors in the messages log file.
Thanks.

>>> leon at brooks.fdns.net 02/12/02 09:49 AM >>>
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:37, Andrew  Barbara wrote:
> I have the following line in my  /etc/inittab file.

> S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D -x 1 -n 1 ttyS0

Is that a cut/paste or a retype? If a retype, check for thinkoes, like SO 
instead of S0 or l instead of 1 and so forth.

> This is supposed to make my modem on com1 to listen for a call.

It is!

> When I type init q or reboot the server the modem never Initializes and the
> mgetty process does not run. Although when I run
> /sbin/mgetty -D -x 1 -n 1 ttyS0 &
> from the command line it runs fine (for only one dial up of course)
> What could cause this?

Anything in /var/log/messages ?

> Andrew Barbara,  MCP
                   ^^^ have you ever seen ``Tron''? (-:

Cheers; Leon