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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
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Organization: Technical University of Graz, Austria
References: <1578@hcshh.hcs.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 92 15:13:51 GMT
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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
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