[2372] in RedHat Linux List
Re: which "getty"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Block)
Sat Nov 2 18:04:33 1996
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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 17:42:25 -0500
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From: Joe Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
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At 7:52 AM -0500 11/2/96, Jesse in Memphis wrote:
>I am trying to setup a terminal on a Macintosh with a Communication program
>using the serial printer port going to a modem cable, through a NULL modem,
>through a gender changer into the DB-25 port on the back of the Redhat
>machine. I thought that the DB-25 port was tty01h under Linux. Am I
>wrong? I have tried using mingetty and agetty to monitor the port but
>after I run `telinit q`, I get a message saying that my inittab entry for
>the mingetty or agetty is respawning to fast and it has been disabled for 5
>minutes. My inittab entry is this...
>
>7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty01h
>
>or
>
>7:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty tty01h 9600
>
>also, if I do a stty -a </dev/tty01h I get a message saying..
>
>stty: standard input: Not a typewriter
>
>Can someone help me with this.
com1 = /dev/cua0
com2 = /dev/cua1
Use them instead of tty-whatever.
Joseph Block <jpb@miamisci.org>
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that Macs work better than
PCs... But you'd be a fool not to follow their lead." -Sanjay S Vakil,
graduate student, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Dept. -100% Mac
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