On Thu, 13 May 1999, Alexei V. Ovsiannikov wrote:
> About an hour ago I had to work directly with a mail server running Linux
> without monitor and keyboard. When I attached monitor and keyboard without
> rebooting the machine, video card was working OK (i.e. I could see some
> messages on the screen , but no promt), but the keyboard seemed not to be
> working at all. What i did wrong and what should I do to be able to work on
> a machine like that?
>
Maybe it doesn't have getty's spawned to the local consoles ?
Can you telnet in from another machine ? If so, you could check (ps -ax)
if there are *getty processes for tty1 ... tty6. If not, you'll have to
add them to /etc/inittab
Frank
