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Re: Setting the serial port for a dumb terminal



I do it like this :

s2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 38400 ttyS1 vt100

And it works (even with colors).

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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Dany Dory wrote:

> Dear list members,
> 
> I'm trying to set up one of my serial ports for a dumb terminal login
> connection. I've added the following line in the /etc/inittab file:
> 
> S1:3:respawn:/sbin/uugetty -d /etc/default/getty -h -r50 /dev/ttyS1 DT9600
> dumb LDISC0
> 
> and run 'telinit q' right after saving the file. 'init' immediately issued
> the following message:
> 
> INIT: Id "S1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> 
> My linux is a 1.2.13 kernel, running on a Pentium 90, and I've read as many
> "man" & "HOWTO" pages as I could, in the last couple of days. What am I
> doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks to all who'll bother to help.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> DD
> 
> 
> 


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