On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Karl Ferguson 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 :-)
Thanks, that's all I need to know.... Deb-e-an it is. > >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. Thanks for the suggestion. I will give it a try and see how it goes. Kevin Traas ValleyNet Hardware/Software Committee Chair & Abby: (604) 859-9741 Head System Administrator Chwk: (604) 823-4763 Central/Upper Fraser Valley, BC, Canada Miss: (604) 859-9741 Toll Free Pager: (604) 918-2054 Alternate E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
