Init is firing up the pppd binary, it is doing it's thing then "detach"ing
from the terminal. When pppd detaches init thinks it is dead and fires up
another one. The correct solution is to add the 'nodetach' option.

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Johan Carlsson wrote:

> Executive summary: it's working, but not exactly as I would like to.
> 
> Typing "pppd tty00 9600 silent local lock :spock" at the root prompt on
> the server (heimdall) and typing "pppd tty00 9600 :heimdall" at the root 
> prompt on the client (spock) *does* open a ppp connection (yay!). 
> Everything works just fine: ping, ftp etc.
> 
> 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.
> 
> /Johan
> 
> P.S. The relevant part of my /etc/ttys looks like:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #
> #       $NetBSD: ttys,v 1.11 1995/10/09 02:19:39 thorpej Exp $
> #       from: @(#)ttys  5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
> #
> # name  getty                           type    status          comments
> #
> # If the console is marked insecure, single-user requires
> # the root password.
> console "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure
> 
> # Define the console that we actually run getty on.
> ttye0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   off secure
> 
> # 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
> tty01   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   vt100   on  secure
>