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Date:      Sun, 29 Aug 1999 11:23:29 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: please help with kermit
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990829111025.6594A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990828190459.9173A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>

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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



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