Re: mgetty basic setup
In your email to me, David Gaudine, you wrote:
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> On 27 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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> > Please read the documentation provided. (man mgetty and look into
> > /usr/doc/mgetty!)
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> I have no /usr/doc/mgetty, that was my first problem.
> "dpkg --contents mgetty_0.99.deb" and "dpkg --search mgetty" both can't
> find it. There is only /usr/doc/copyright/mgetty.
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> Did you mean /usr/info? That seems to have the same information as Gert's
> Postscript file, which is what I used for my successful Slackware
> installation. Following that info is complicated a bit by not having
> "policy.h".
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> > David Gaudine (david@annette.concordia.ca) wrote:
> > :
> > : 2) What should the line in /etc/inittab be? I'm using
> > : d3:45:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS2
> > : because this is what worked with Slackware.
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> "man mgetty" and "info mgetty" give no hint about whether "d3:45" is
> correct. Can somebody tell me what line works for them?
>
> I realize I'm missing something obvious, since I've been reading
> the debian and mgetty mailing lists for months and nobody else seems to
> have such basic problems.
Actually, you can look at a page I put up:
http://www.buoy.com/isp
Follow the mgetty link. It mainly deals with compiling, but there is
a config section.
Tim
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