On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Eli Billauer wrote:
> Hello all.
>
>
> co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100
>
> And this is what I call annoying! For some reason that is beyond my
> understanding, someone decided that my only COM port should be tied up
> to doing logins.
>
During the good old days of UNIX, before the advent of personal computers
and workstations, it was customary to attach terminals on serial ports,
in order to allow several users to access the computer. Old habits die hard ;-)
Emil
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