Re: Console on serial
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Frode Haugsgjerd wrote:
> The script /etc/init.d/single kills all processes, then switches to
> single user mode, and executes the line "~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin" in
> inittab but not the getty on the serial console. I have read the
> manpages init and inittab, and can't see why my entry fails to start.
As Rainer points out your kernel needs to be aware that you want it to
consider the serial port as a console. What you had running was not a
console at all, but just a serial terminal.
Years ago I often had a real dumbterm hanging off a serial port on my
Linux boxes. Very useful for (say) sending an email with pine when the
graphical console is being used by someone else.
Rob
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