mgetty and other comms software

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On 24 Jan 1999, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:

> L. Whiteside <liam@whitesnd.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > Obviously I can edit /etc/inittab, disabled the mgetty line and run
> > init q. Is there any easier way?
> 
> Configure minicom to use proper tty lock files. Do a
>    strings `which minicom` | grep /
> and see what the lock path is. It could be something like
> /var/locks.
> 
> It MUST be exactly the same as the one mgetty uses.
> 

Still much easier as minicom shows the path to the lock file in its
setup menu. But this still holds: "It MUST be exactly the same as the
one mgetty uses."

Klaus

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