Re: [LUG] getty in Red Hat 7.2

[Jon Still <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think I cheated and went and got the old getty.

However I *have* managed to get mgetty working!  I just can't remember 
how and the machine I tried it on is my Fiance's - I'll get her to find 
out tho... :)

J.

On Friday, February 8, 2002, at 11:28 AM, Alex Charrett wrote:

> Heyas all,
>
> I've just (well last night) upgraded my home server/gateway box to RH 
> 7.2
> from RH 6.2 and its all working nicley, apart from me being unable to 
> find
> getty for it.
>
> For some time I've had this machine using ttyS1 as the console as its 
> not
> got a monitor and keyboard on it.
>
> Since the upgrade I've got lilo using the serial console happily but 
> have
> been unable to get a getty to run on the serial line so I can log in via
> it.
>
> I have mgetty which apparantly should do the job but
> S1:123:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 9660 ttyS1
> doesn't produce any sensible output on the console.  I had the same
> problem with 6.2 but using getty worked just fine.  But now I am
> gettyless!
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Alex
>
>
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