Thanks to "Dr. Tom Blinn, 603-884-0646" <tpb_at_doctor.zk3.dec.com>
Solution:
>If "console" is the same device as "/dev/tty00" which is the case when you
>boot the system using a serial console, then you can't have both lines in
>the /etc/inittab file or one of the two getty programs will ALWAYS fail and
>you will get the symptoms you see.
That did it... I had both console and /dev/tty00 lines in /etc/inittab...
I took the /dev/tty00 out and left the other... no problems now... Thanks!
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>> When I connect a vt terminal via the serial port, I keep getting the
>> message:
>> getty: cannot open "/dev/tty00". errno: 6
>>
>> but the vt term works fine.
>> "getty /dev/tty00 console vt100" is running
>> as well as
>> "getty console console vt100"
>>
>> I think this is also causing a wtmp to be filled up to disk capacity
>> I can't kill the first one since the pid keeps changing.
>>
>> Suggestions?
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Dan Kirkpatrick dkirk_at_phy.syr.edu
Systems Administrator/Manager
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Received on Tue Nov 10 1998 - 20:29:30 NZDT