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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!news.tu-graz.ac.at!fstgds01!chmr From: chmr@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) Subject: Re: 386BSD - multiple /sbin/init's in process list, solution ? Message-ID: <1992Sep18.151351.23495@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Keywords: 386BSD /sbin/init Sender: news@news.tu-graz.ac.at (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: fstgds01 Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria References: <1578@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 15:13:51 GMT Lines: 32 In article <1578@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: >i (re-) tried to install the /sbin/init program from the original 0.1 >distribution in various patched levels. > >all types of init's showed multiples of itself (ca. 10..15) in the >process list, constantly killing (disappearing) init's from lower pid's >and forking new ones with higher pid's. > >so i have constantly 10-15 init's running, with constantly incementing >process id's (and an increased "background load" ...) > >everything else is fine, multi- and single user mode works and /etc/rc >is properly executed. > >has someone an idea why, and has this problem already been solved ? > >hellmuth >-- >hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe >hm@hcshh.hcs.de tel: +49/40/55903-170 fax: +49/40/5591486 This can happen if init cannot execute the programs you specified in /etc/ttys. However, it should also write a message to /dev/console if this happens. Look at your /etc/ttys file and make sure the commands specified therein are executable. BTW, I am writing on a new init program, which has various features. Stay tuned ! Christoph -- signature: Bad file number