From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 3 1:32:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.is.co.za (mercury.is.co.za [196.4.160.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D770414F35 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 01:31:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoff@hangdog.is.co.za) Received: from admin.is.co.za (admin.is.co.za [196.23.0.9]) by mercury.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13060 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:29:00 +0200 Received: from hangdog.is.co.za (hangdog.is.co.za [196.23.0.108]) by admin.is.co.za (8.8.6/8.7.3/ISsubsidiary#1) with ESMTP id KAA05200 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:29:49 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from geoff@localhost) by hangdog.is.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.2) id KAA51806 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:29:49 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from geoff) From: Geoff Rehmet Message-Id: <199908030829.KAA51806@hangdog.is.co.za> Subject: Setting up serial console To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:29:48 +0200 (SAST) Reply-To: "Geoff Rehmet" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am having trouble setting up a serial console on -CURRENT (3.x also gives me the same hassle.) The interesting thing, is that a serial terminal on cuaa0 works, while ttyd0 does not. I'm using the following line in /etc/ttys: ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on insecure If I replace "ttyd0" with "cuaa0", it works. Any suggestions? My gettytab contains: default:\ :cb:ce:ck:fd#1000:im=\r\n%s/%m (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200: <... snip snip .. > 2|std.9600|9600-baud:\ :np:hw:sp#9600: Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution - Infrastructure tel: +27-11-283-5462, fax: +27-11-283-5401 mobile: +27-83-292-5800 email: geoffr@is.co.za URL: http://www.is.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message