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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix!not-for-mail From: banana@panix.com (Walter Polkosnik) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: getty Not working? Date: 25 Jun 1994 23:58:36 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 32 Message-ID: <2uiudc$p44@panix.com> References: <2ui2nd$io@panix.com> <2uil88$idr@panix3.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bill Paul (wpaul@panix.com) wrote: : Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, : Walter Polkosnik (banana@panix.com) had the courage to say: : : I've tried to set up my second serial port to accept a direct terminal : : (another PC). I edited my /etc/ttys to turn on getty for tty01, but : : there's never any response on the terminal. I've played with settings in : : gettytab and on the PC I'm using as a terminal, but nothing seems to help. : You don't say what OS you're using. I'm using FreeBSD 1.1 with a : terminal on tty02 (well, ttyd2 really... whatever). : Uhm... let's see here... quick rundown of steps: : 1) Edit /etc/ttys and label the proper port as "on." You said you did : that, so that's fine. : 2) As root, type "kill -1 1" so that init actually spawns the getty : process. You say later on that you have problems with SLIP when : getty is running on tty01, so I'll take it for granted that you : did this too and that a getty process is actually spawned. : 3) A fundamental thing that a surprising number of people overlook: : make sure you use a null modem when connecting the two machines : together. If you don't have a null modem, all bets are off. :) This is a fundamental thing I overlooked also. Thanks. I finally did figure it out myself though. -- Walter Polkosnik banana@panix.com Physics Department Queens College, CUNY Credo quia absurdum est.