Sharing serial device between vgetty and outgoing pppd

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Hi,

Thomas Egrelius wrote:
> >> Yes, both pppd and mgetty/vgetty are configured to use the same device,
> >> /dev/tty01 in my case.
> >
> >tty01? What kind of operating system is this?
> 
> An almost plain Linux Debian 1.3. But after I've struggled too long with
> this, and sent the message to this group, I suddenly got a bright idea...
> why not try to use ttyS1, which also are mapped to the serial ports.... ;-)

ttyS1 is what you should use.  If tty01 does also map to the serial port,
this must be debian specific, as standard linux does not dos this.

gert
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