Peter S Galbraith writes: > A friend want to connect his Debian laptop and a Windows box > through a null-modem cable; we thought a PPP link would be most > flexible in terms of usability (http, ftp, telnet, etc). > > He uncommented the `getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100' line in > /etc/inittab and added the serail port to /etc/securetty. > In the Windows log files, he can see that the "Debian GNU/Linux 2.1" > login prompt appear.
Don't start a getty instead start pppd from init or a shell script in /etc/init.d/. See the manuals. > > The question is now to get pppd started automatically instead of > a shell login. Is that done using the `-l login_program' getty > option? > > Any hints out there? > Thanks > -- > Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/ Just curious, how do you set up the Winbug side of the ppp connection ?? It alway think of a modem involved. -- ______________________________________________________ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/Linux http://www.qlsoft.cl ______________________________________________________
