Problem dialing in via mgetty.
I am putting together a four machine (Debian) GNU/Linux network in my
HS classroom. It's substantially working, and, I might add, much to
the credit of the Debian team and the excellent install setup. I am
running 2.2, pretty much "out of the box."
Tonight I dialed in to my home machine, a Sid system. It was a piece
of cake to enable dialing in using mgetty and a simple tweak to
/etc/inittab. Deceptively easy I think. The first time around, it
worked fine, and I logged in and out, no problem. A while later I
decided to try to xmodem (or whatever) a file, when the system didn't
cooperate:
In typing in my login name, each character was echoed twice.
Surely this is easy to fix? Can someone provide a clue?
It is much easier to install a network now. I now fear to have to
learn the nuts and bolts, in order to be able to administer the
system(s).
The system is being built on a grant, as a proof of concept effort.
I hope to demonstrate as much scientific computer use as I can. So
far, so good! The naysayers are many.
Thanks everyone. Again.
Alan Davis,
Marianas High School and
Northern Marianas College
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adavis@saipan.com 1-670-235-6580
Alan E. Davis, PMB 30, Box 10006, Saipan, MP 96950-8906, CNMI
I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free, so as to give up any
hypothesis, however much beloved -- and I cannot resist forming one on
every subject -- as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
-- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
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