Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:42:08 +0100 From: Mark Cullen <mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Artem Kazakov <a.kazakov@comptek.ru> Subject: Re: Serial console weirdness Message-ID: <417E7050.4070208@dsl.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <417E30F4.8060903@comptek.ru> References: <417E1FDE.3050407@dsl.pipex.com> <417E30F4.8060903@comptek.ru>
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Artem Kazakov wrote: > Mark Cullen wrote: > >>Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The >>cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys >> >># The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. >>ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" dialup on secure >> >> >>Now, my problem is that when I do a kill -HUP 1 nothing happens; Well, I >>am sure something happens, it certainly doesn't start getty on that >>serial port though! However(!) when I start getty manually on that port: >> >>/usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0 >> >>It promptly goes into the background and on my other machine I get the >>login prompt and all is well (until I logout as getty isn't being >>respawned). I didn't see anything logged as to why it's not working. >> >>I will mention that I yanked the (very very broken) graphics card out of >>that machine, so there's no ttyv's. Do I need to make the serial console >>my ... console/display for getty to start working again perhaps? >> >>Any help would be much appreciated. > > probably you need to change dialup with something (like vt100) sutable > your enviroment > I have tried cons25, xterm and (now) vt100. It's not that... # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" cons25 on secure ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure ttyd2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure ttyd3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure # Dumb console dcons "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure # Pseudo terminals ttyp0 none network /etc/ttys: 307 lines, 7539 characters (root|bone)/home/mrboo# kill -HUP 1 (root|bone)/home/mrboo# ps ax | grep getty 21134 p0 R+ 0:00.02 grep getty (root|bone)/home/mrboo# Note: I have no getty processes as there's no graphics card, so I am guessing if it was working right I would start to see a: /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 ttyd0 It appears in the process list (and works) when I run the above manually! -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
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