From: Chris DiTrani <cditrani@livedata.com>
To: linux-admin <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Serial Terminal - Can't get getty to run via inittab
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:16:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461261BF.8050509@livedata.com> (raw)
I'm trying to get a headless Fedora 6 box working with a serial terminal
on com1. I've got grub set up so that kernel output goes to the
terminal, and I've added this line to my inittab:
s0:345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt100
but agetty is not being run.
If I run agetty with this same command line explicitly (from a prompt),
then the terminal gets a login prompt and I can login fine, so it seems
to just be a matter of getting init to run agetty.
I've read several how-tos on this but no joy. I've also tried mgetty
with the same results.
Any ideas?
TIA.
next reply other threads:[~2007-04-03 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 14:16 Chris DiTrani [this message]
2007-04-03 15:05 ` Serial Terminal - Can't get getty to run via inittab terry white
2007-04-03 16:18 ` Glynn Clements
2007-04-03 16:26 ` Chris DiTrani
2007-04-03 17:23 ` Chris DiTrani
2007-04-03 16:28 ` Benoît Rouits
2007-04-05 16:05 ` Chris DiTrani
2007-04-05 21:50 ` Adrian Calinescu
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