A vigorous getty

[Paul De Bra]

In article <1923 at leah.Albany.Edu> rds95 at leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
>...For example, right now there
>are 2 gettys taking up 90% of the machine cycles. All the other gettys
>look normal, i.e., they're just sitting asleep. Killing the offenders
>just spawns a couple new ones, of course; if I turn the offending 
>lines off in /etc/ttys and then kill the processes, they still come back.
>...

You have to turn off the lines in /etc/ttys and then do a "kill -1 1".
This tells init to not kill the gettys and not spawn any new ones.
On some versions of Unix init "forgets" to kill the gettys so you might
have to kill them by hand if you happen to have such a bogus version.

Of course you then still have to find the cause of the looping gettys.
Most likely there is a loose cable or broken serial interface.

Paul.
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