On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 Ravi wrote: >S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 > >and did a #init q and then the machine rolls along fine... >Now why is all this stuff happening ? ttyS1 is COM2 under DOS right ? Just >incase if this is of _any_ significance (dont know if it is) , my mouse is >NOT on COM2 , its a PS/2 Mousepad (Laptop) , and hence on /dev/psaux >It works fine too .. no problems. Well if your modem is at port ttyS1 (COM2) then change the above line to S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 A better option is to use uugetty I suppose you are using it for your modem to accept incoming calls (Dial Up Networking) for this copy the file /usr/doc/getty***/Examples/gettydefs to /etc/ copy /usr/doc/getty***/Examples/defaults/uugetty.autoanswer to /etc/ rename it as conf.uugetty.ttySx ( replace x with your modem port.1 if modem connected to COM2) edit this file in the line ALTLOCK=cua1 replace cua1 with the appropriate number.(cua1 for COM2 cua0 for COM1) replace the line above in /etc/inittab as S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/uugetty -d /etc/conf.uugetty.ttyS1 ttyS1 F115200 vt100 replace S1 with S0 if modem is connected to COM1 the above works for a 56 kbps modem.For a 33.6 kbps modem replace F115200 with 38400 type 'init q' at the prompt Now your fiends can dial up your system and they get a Shell account. You can set up shell accounts (SLIP) ,TCP/IP accts,POP accts etc. using linuxconf. Bye. --Mahendra M (i-Mac) RV College of Engineering,Bangalore. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Linux India Mailing List Archives are now available. Please search the archive at http://lists.linux-india.org/ before posting your question to avoid repetition and save bandwidth.
