. Many thanks for your helpful response.
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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: getty vs minicom
Date: 07/19/99 18:34
According to Andrew MacIntyre:
Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all
According to Andrew MacIntyre:
Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors.
Could you tell me where then please. AFAICT, getty is packaged as
base/getty, however such a package appears not to exist, either
source or binary. mgetty I found w/o any probs.
It's in
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
According to Andrew MacIntyre:
As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an
ancient Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more
recent Debian box sigh.
That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based
locking
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew:
I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When
getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should
be able to access it.
Well, yes, that's probbaly what it doesn, but
: getty vs minicom
Date: 07/16/99 19:38
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrew:
I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When
getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should
be able to access it.
Well, yes
According to Andrew MacIntyre:
As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient
Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box
sigh.
That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based
locking between dialin/dialout) which has
I have a debian 1.3.1 system on which I have a modem for
periodic remote access. Dial-in has worked nicely for some
time. However I needed to check/reset the modem
configuration, so I fired up minicom (cu isn't my cup of tea,
and I've previously used minicom to do this, but not on this
Andrew:
I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When
getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should
be able to access it.
Unless I misunderstand something...
Marc
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