From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 29 8:38:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC9F156DD for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 08:38:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from sol.cs.binghamton.edu (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA10789; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:37:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:23:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: David Scheidt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please help with kermit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, David Scheidt wrote: > On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > I modify the /etc/ttys file to turn on ttyd0 and ttyd1 on two machines > > running FreeBSD. The terminal type is set to be "unknown" not "dialup". If > > It sounds like you are trying to connect the machines to gether, so that you > can log into the one from the other? > > Don't run getty on the tty you connecting from. > Thanks for your help. It makes me think of the following two points: (1) Run getty on a line (e.g. /dev/ttyd0) only if the machine is expecting a login on that line. (2) If I do not want to login, I can turn off the lines in /etc/ttys. In this case, I can still use the line by other programs like kermit. In other words, I can use serial communication without touching /etc/ttys or getty at all. Please correct me if I am still wrong. -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message