On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Bevan <[email protected]> wrote:
> i am attempting to setup vgetty on my ubuntu but i am having issue with it

That is probably because your system is already running /sbin/getty

> http://frank.harvard.edu/~coldwell/answering_machine/

This talks about Red Hat 7.3, that's about 10 years old. Perhaps there
are more up-to-date instructions for what you want to do elsewhere?
Alternatively, it's all unix, and the steps & principles are the same
today, it's just the details that may be different, so you have to be
a bit adaptable :-)

> say i need to put S0:345:respawn:/sbin/vgetty ttyS0 in /etc/inittab but
> ubuntu 12.10 doesn't user inittab now it use upstart so how do i do this?
> Any pointers?

$ man upstart
which gives you the man page for init, and says you can read about how
to configure init in init(5)
$ man 5 init
which tells you about scripts in /etc/init/
$ cd /etc/init
$ grep tty *
which tells you about a series of files tty1.conf tty2.conf and so on.
These run the individual getty processes on each port.

Without actually trying anything :-) I'd guess that you might need a
ttyUSB0.conf file, pointing to the command that you want to have run
on that port.

-jim
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