Re: Dial-in serial getty
Steve Keller wrote:
> For some retro feeling I grabbed my old modem and attached it to the
> phone line. Minicom and dial-out work but now I'd like to allow
> dial-in with a getty waiting on the line.
>
> Systemd has a serial-getty@ service which uses agetty but that doesn't
> work. It seems agetty is just not suited for that job although the
> manual page claims it to be. But I couldn't get agetty to wait for an
> incoming call, answer it, and then send the login prompt. Instead, it
> always immediately sends the prompt, execve()s to /bin/login which then
> terminates after a 60s timeout.
>
> I've now installed mgetty but there is no systemd service file for it.
>
> Should I change the serial-getty@ service to use mgetty or should I
> create a new service for it? In case of the latter, does it suffice
> to only add the .service file or do I need anything else?
>
agetty needs '-L never' to answer a modem; the modem may need an
--init-string to be told to answer incoming calls. Have you done
both of those?
-dsr-
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