On Thursday 08 October 2009 19:16:17 Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:51:21 +0100 > > Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thursday 08 October 2009 17:44:15 Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:21:55 +0100 > > > Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 29 September 2009 22:47:39 Kevin Ross wrote: > > > > > change your getty to rungetty
> > > I think that inittab should be sufficient. Please post both your > > > old and new inittab files. > I admit that I've never actually used rungetty, but judging from the > manpage, rungetty doesn't take a baudrate parameter (the '38400' that > you have), presumably since it's designed for VTs and not for serial > lines. If I'm right, than rungetty is likely misinterpreting the > baudrate as the tty line, and since it doesn't exist, it's dying. Try > omitting it and see what happens. Bingo! Many thanks both. I had read the man page - but had not correctly interpretted it in relation to inittab. I had never previously editted it except to alter the default run level. The one fly in the ointment is that tty1 didn't launch. Hopefully, for what I am trying to achieve, it won't matter and I can shelve that problem for a later day. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
