On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Robert Stromberg wrote:
> I would like to connect a terminal to one of the serial ports of my
> Linux 5.0 system to run a second user. What do I need to do to get it
> to work?
You can get all the info from the Serial-HOWTO, but the short of it is you
need a null modem cable going between the Linux box and the terminal.
On the terminal, run kermit or your terminal software of choice, use
hardware flow control and use vt100 terminal emulation and 38400,n,8,1.
On the Linux box edit /etc/inittab and add this:
# Serial terminal setup
s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT38400 vt100
Then run `init q' as root and you should see a login prompt on the
terminal. You can also add ttyS0 to /etc/securetty if you need to get a
root login on the terminal.
Hope that helps,
Trevor
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