Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-20 Thread andrew.macintyre
. Many thanks for your helpful response. am - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread andrew.macintyre
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

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread andrew.macintyre
: 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

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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

getty vs minicom

1999-07-15 Thread andrew.macintyre
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

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
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 -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe