[LI] getty respawning

["Mahendra M" <karmah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 Ravi wrote:

>S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1
>
>and did a #init q  and then the machine rolls along fine...
>Now why is all this stuff happening ? ttyS1 is COM2 under DOS right ? Just
>incase if this is of _any_ significance (dont know if it is) , my mouse is
>NOT on COM2 , its a PS/2 Mousepad (Laptop) , and hence on /dev/psaux
>It works fine too .. no problems.

Well if your modem is at port ttyS1 (COM2)

then change the above line to
S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1

A better option is to use uugetty
I suppose you are using it for your modem to accept incoming calls
(Dial Up Networking)
for this copy the file /usr/doc/getty***/Examples/gettydefs to /etc/
copy /usr/doc/getty***/Examples/defaults/uugetty.autoanswer to /etc/
rename it as conf.uugetty.ttySx ( replace x with your modem port.1 if modem
connected to COM2)

edit this file

in the line ALTLOCK=cua1
replace cua1 with the appropriate number.(cua1 for COM2 cua0 for COM1)

replace the line above in /etc/inittab as
S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/uugetty -d /etc/conf.uugetty.ttyS1 ttyS1 F115200 vt100

replace S1 with S0 if modem is connected to COM1

the above works for a 56 kbps modem.For a 33.6 kbps modem replace
F115200 with 38400

type 'init q' at the prompt

Now your fiends can dial up your system and they get a Shell account.
You can set up shell accounts (SLIP) ,TCP/IP accts,POP accts etc.
using linuxconf.

Bye.

  --Mahendra M (i-Mac)
 RV College of Engineering,Bangalore.





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