Can't getty on ttyS1
I'm having a problem trying to start getty on a serial port and am hoping
someone can give me some suggestions. I'm new to Debian (and Linux in
general) although have a few years experience administrating SCO Unix.
BTW, how do you pronounce Debian? Deb-E-an or Deb-I-an?
Anyway, back on subject....
I have my Linux box directly connected to a SCO Unix box via a serial
line. I can enable getty on the SCO end and login from Linux, but I want
to do things the other way around (for several reasons) and I can't.
Being able to do it one way indicates the cable is fine.
I've read the Serial HOWTO.
I've tried enabling the port by adding the proper entry to inittab
(working from memory at the moment) as follows:
S1:234:respawn:/etc/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100
I then ran "init q". Running "ps la" didn't show getty running on S1.
To make sure it wasn't a problem between me and init, I disabled some of
the VC's (using a #) and ran "init q" and things went as expected -
however, still no getty on S1.
Does anyone have an ideas or suggestions?
Kevin Traas
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