SUMMARY: INIT respawning too rapidly

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Hi All

My original question......
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>I have a problem that developed after a power-failure.
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>The console log now shows:
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>INIT: Command is respawning too rapidly. Check for possible errors.
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>id: co "/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p" `uname-n` console login: "-T sun..
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>The machine (SS20) seems normal except that \var is filling up very
>quickly as wtmp grows. The inittab file seem right.
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>Could someone please point me in the direction of the solution.
>

Thanks to Ron Loftin for supplying the answer shortly after I posted the
question.

Ron Loftin <rloftin@engsys.mc.xerox.com> wrote:

>If you are running xdm on the console, it is probably starting up before the
>system puts up the getty on the console device. I had the same problem here,
>and the solution was to put a "sleep" command in the init script for xdm.
>Make sure that xdm does not start until after the console login comes up, and
>you should be OK.

Thanks again Ron.

Cheers
Leon

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