mgetty oddity/problem

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Hi

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 04:33:38PM -0500, Brett Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > All these OKs confuse me somewhat.  Could I have a logfile of level
> > "-x6" including the initialization?
> 
> Yes, of course! I can't get it to you today 'cause I'm way too busy, but
> tomorrow definitely.
> 
> What's *very* odd, though, is mgetty will answer the phone correctly if I
> strace it!!! Like the uncertainty principle...
> 
> But when I login like this, with mgetty having run under strace, my input
> is fine, but output from the remote system is very, very odd. For example,
> a login prompt looks like:
> 
> "    g "

Could be a bad serial port - I have seen some *very* weird effects with
the on-board serial ports of some pentium boards.   You might want to try
a different serial port (ISA card) or different serial cable.

gert
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