On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Johan Carlsson wrote:
> 
> > Firing up ppp in /etc/ttys, however, *doesn't work*. I'm getting a weird
> > message:
> > 
> > Jun 17 22:23:25 heimdall init: getty repeating too quickly on port
> > /dev/tty00
> > 
> > which is repeated in bursts every few minutes. Can someone explain what's
> > going on? TIA.
> 
> You're not setting pppd up to sit around and wait for a connection. It
> tries to connect, fails, and exits. So init tries again. and again. and
> again....
> 
> > P.S. The relevant part of my /etc/ttys looks like:
> > 
> > # Hardwired lines are marked off, by default, so getty(8)
> > # is quiet when they don't exist.
> > tty00   "/usr/sbin/pppd tty00 9600 silent local lock :spock" unknown on
> > secure
> 
> Try adding passive?

And remove the tty00 so it doesn't daemon().

Or, better still, look at the 'pp' capability in gettytab

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