From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 19 20: 7:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50CAC37B4C5 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2000 20:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 40253 invoked by uid 100); 20 Oct 2000 03:07:54 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14831.46858.679894.899373@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:07:54 -0500 (CDT) To: Luke Cowell Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: access through modem In-Reply-To: <86181639@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luke Cowell writes: > I have a freebsd 4.1 system complete with modem. I want to be able to dial > in and administrate the box. How do I configure dialin access to take a > tty ? is there a how to on this somewhere ? cc me in reply Try editing /etc/ttys, and changing the "off" to "on" for the four dialup lines, then send a HUP to init. After you dial in, you can find out which tty you are on, turn the others off, and HUP init again. The man pages for ttys and getty might be worth a look as well.