Re: Serial Console

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

" Shane " wrote:
  >
  >Hello,
  >I have setup a Debian system for serial console.
  >At boot time specifying the "console=ttyS0,9600"
  >will cause all the messages to appear on the dumb terminal except the final 
      >login prompt
  >which appears on the PC console.
  >What else needs to be done to get the login
  >prompt on the dumb terminal too.  Thanks for
  >your suggestions.

Edit /etc/inittab.  For example, add something like:

S0:23:respawn:/bin/getty ttyS0 9600 wyse50

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