In your email to me, David Gaudine, you wrote: > > > > On 27 Aug 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Please read the documentation provided. (man mgetty and look into > > /usr/doc/mgetty!) > > I have no /usr/doc/mgetty, that was my first problem. > "dpkg --contents mgetty_0.99.deb" and "dpkg --search mgetty" both can't > find it. There is only /usr/doc/copyright/mgetty. > > Did you mean /usr/info? That seems to have the same information as Gert's > Postscript file, which is what I used for my successful Slackware > installation. Following that info is complicated a bit by not having > "policy.h". > > > David Gaudine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > : > > : 2) What should the line in /etc/inittab be? I'm using > > : d3:45:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS2 > > : because this is what worked with Slackware. > > "man mgetty" and "info mgetty" give no hint about whether "d3:45" is > correct. Can somebody tell me what line works for them? > > I realize I'm missing something obvious, since I've been reading > the debian and mgetty mailing lists for months and nobody else seems to > have such basic problems.
Actually, you can look at a page I put up: http://www.buoy.com/isp Follow the mgetty link. It mainly deals with compiling, but there is a config section. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "I have abandonded my search for the Truth, and now am looking for a good fantasy..." Ashleigh Brilliant ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
