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Re: which "getty"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesse in Memphis)
Sun Nov 3 11:23:48 1996
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 10:20:09 +0100
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From: jesseff@socomm.net (Jesse in Memphis)
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I tried using those ports but I still get the respawning too quickly error
from init. Is this the right getty to use for the serial port? I have
mingetty and agetty on my system.
Anymore thoughts would be helpful. Has anyone done this before and got it
to work well?
>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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