At 07:59 AM 10/4/96 -0800, you wrote: >BTW, how do you pronounce Debian? Deb-E-an or Deb-I-an?
Debian was named around Debra and Ian Murdock (Ian being the founder). Hence I can only pronounce it "Deb-e-an" - I've heard lots of people pronounce it "Dee-bee-an" which makes my hair on the back of my neck stand :-) >I have my Linux box directly connected to a SCO Unix box via a serial >line. I can enable getty on the SCO end and login from Linux, but I want >to do things the other way around (for several reasons) and I can't. >Being able to do it one way indicates the cable is fine. > >I've read the Serial HOWTO. > >I've tried enabling the port by adding the proper entry to inittab >(working from memory at the moment) as follows: > >S1:234:respawn:/etc/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt100 > >I then ran "init q". Running "ps la" didn't show getty running on S1. >To make sure it wasn't a problem between me and init, I disabled some of >the VC's (using a #) and ran "init q" and things went as expected - >however, still no getty on S1. One definate thing I found with normal getty (I think it's agetty) is that it's rather flakey for dialin lines. Try installing the mgetty package - it works great and is very flexable. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760) [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
