Richard Kaszeta wrote: > > Okay, I've got a fairly out-of-the-box Bo system, and I wanted to hook > up a dumb text terminal to it (in addition to the standard console). > I've done this before on Linux and Debian machines, no problem, but > now it's not working. > > For starts, I tried uncommenting the line in inittab > > T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100 > > And I get a login prompt just fine. And it prompts me for a > password. Then a minute later getty dies and is respawned by init.
It prompts you for a password before you type your login? If so there must be something wrong with the terminal settings. > I get the same results with the corresponding commands for gettyps and > mgetty. > > I am guessing that login's config is responsible, but it's a little > hard to diagnose since login_961025-2.deb's documentation doesn't > match the programs well. > > Oh, and the getty is 1.45a-3 -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
