mgetty on null modem

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:33:16 +0100

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Hi,

On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 02:11:06PM +0100, magth615@student.liu.se wrote:
> I can't seem to get mgetty started correctly. Please reply directly to
> me, since I'm not a subscriber to this list.
> 
> This is in my inittab:
> 
> 7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x 9 -b -r -s 38400 -p "login: " ttyS1

Start without any options.  Especially without options that you do not
understand ("-b -r" are definitely NOT useful for about 99.5 per cent of
all mgetty users).

Then switch on one option after each other, and see what happens.

gert
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