bill@zycor.UUCP (bill) (05/24/88)
About a week ago I posted an article about a problem on V/AT I was having installing an internal modem. I added a line to /etc/inittab like "t0:1234:respawn:/etc/getty ttyM0 1200" and rebooted. The system would cycle between getty-login-getty-login ... at about 20 second intervals. I took a look at the /etc/wtmp file and matched it up against the description in the "file formats" section of the software development volume II. The login was always failing with a 15 (decimal) in the "e_terminate" field. (See the 017 in 03740). 0003620 \0 \0 \0 \0 033 V 224 " L O G I N \0 \0 \0 0003640 t 0 \0 \0 t t y M 0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 0003660 i \0 006 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 033 V 224 " L O G I 0003700 N \0 \0 \0 t 0 \0 \0 t t y M 0 \0 \0 \0 0003720 \0 \0 \0 \0 i \0 \b \0 017 \0 \0 \0 / V 224 " 0003740 g e t t y \0 \0 \0 t 0 \0 \0 t t y M 0003760 0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 k \0 005 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 --etc-- --etc-- So my first question is what exactly this field represents in the record (it is different than "e_exit"). The 20 seconds and the 15 look a lot like the 20 seconds and SIGTERM that's described at the end of init(1). Now here is the latest information. I installed the "sysvision" disk and actually went through the terminal installation menu. I told it that I wanted to install "t0" - the line in the /etc/inttab file for ttyM0. Then I shutdown and rebooted from scratch. Suddenly everything is working fine... If you take a look at /etc/inittab, sysviz has added the same identical line that I added, except that it is in triplicate. (Yes, it's in there three times in a row!). This implies to me that the author of sysviz knows something I don't (not suprising...). Ideas? And thanx to everyone that sent me their thoughts last time. -- Bill Mahoney ...ihnp4!unocss!ugn!zycor!bill In space, no one can hear you think.