[ale] Re: Respawning to fast

[dledford at dialnet.net (Doug Ledford)]

On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Kerr, James A. wrote:

> 
> I'm running slackware 3.0 and kernel 2.0.0  ppp 2.2.0f
> 
> 
> Mgetty 0.9.8
> 
> I get a msg in syslog that says:
> 
> ID "s0" respawning to fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> 
> How can I stop this?  When this happens I can't dial into my system.  Any   
> ideas?

Usually one of two reasons for this.  First, the modem is hard locked and 
won't reset or respond to mgetty without power cycling the modem.  
Second, someone found out your number and is trying to hack into your 
system, or they have the number and an account, but forgot their 
password.  After too many repeated attempts to log in without success and 
getting disconnected, init will think the mgetty is looping in some 
fasion because it is respawning so often and issue the warning you see 
and disable the mgetty line for five minutes.

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