mgetty on null modem

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Hi,

please don't remove the "cc: mgetty@muc.de".  Someone else might be 
able to help...

On Sat, Nov 07, 1998 at 02:45:37AM +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
[..]
> Doesn't work... get the same messages whatever I do. I was under the
> impression that -r was to be used with null modems (serial cable
> between two computers), the man-page says that -b could be useful
> together with -r. -r takes away all modem initialization, which isn't
> needed since I don't use a regular modem.

Hmmm, this is a detail that you gratiously omitted from your last post
(the fact that you don't use a modem).  In any case, you don't want
"-b".  "-r" is ok here (with "modem-check-time -1" in mgetty.config).

Well, maybe it's time to look into the log file? 

"mgetty -V" will tell you where the log is located.

gert 

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