mgetty: error controlling tty

Stefan Bauer (bauer@via-appia.de)
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:53:58 +0200


Marcus Gruendler <runner@aachen.heimat.de> wrote:


> When I start mgetty by calling <path>/mgetty ttyS1 everything works
> fine.

Here ist the problem already, you must NOT start mgetty from the
command line. You MUST start it from /etc/inittab.

gruesse Stefan Bauer.

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