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From: Vitaly Luban <vluban@LynuxWorks.COM>
To: Steve Hill <steve@navaho.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial Console
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 05:09:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A2E3A90.A8B570A2@LynuxWorks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012051202120.1578-100000@sorbus.navaho>

Hi,

Steve Hill wrote:

> I'm building boxes with the console set to /dev/ttyS0.  However, I can't
> guarantee that there will always be a term plugged into the serial
> port.  If there is no term on the port, eventually the buffer fills and
> any processes that write to the console (i.e. init) block.  Is there some
> option somewhere to stop this happening (i.e. either ignoring the
> flow-control or just allowing the buffer to overflow)?
>

Try the following into /etc/inittab

s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 19200 ttyS0 vt100

"-L" here means "ignore flow control", the rest, as you wish.

Hope this helps,

Vitaly.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-06 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-05 12:04 Serial Console Steve Hill
2000-12-05 12:11 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2000-12-05 14:44 ` Paul Jakma
2000-12-05 14:58   ` Steve Hill
2000-12-05 15:07     ` Chad Schwartz
2000-12-05 15:14     ` Paul Jakma
2000-12-05 15:28       ` Steve Hill
2000-12-05 15:38         ` Chad Schwartz
2000-12-05 16:25       ` Rogier Wolff
2000-12-05 17:00         ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2000-12-06 13:09 ` Vitaly Luban [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-05 15:20 Jon Burgess
2000-12-05 16:03 ` Chad Schwartz
2000-12-05 18:09 Jon Burgess
     [not found] <200208191108120240.0D409F0A@192.168.128.16>
2002-08-19  9:10 ` Carlos Velasco
2002-08-19  9:18   ` Russell King
     [not found] <3174569B9743D511922F00A0C943142309F80D9F@TYANWEB>
     [not found] ` <20050516205731.GA5914@waste.org>
2005-05-16 23:15   ` serial console Matt Mackall
2005-05-16 23:37     ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-16 23:47       ` Matt Mackall
2005-05-17  1:24         ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-05-17  2:26           ` Matt Mackall
2005-05-17  2:40             ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-05-17  2:19     ` Rob Landley

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