System console on serial port

2004-06-28 Thread Smith, Martin
Anybody know how to make a serial COM port the system console device? The Debian installation defaulted to the video monitor and keyboard as the sys console, but they have been removed. I have the com ports enabled with getty. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

RE: /var/log/wmtmp

2000-05-31 Thread Smith, Martin
You can also manually clear wtmp or any file with: cat /dev/null > {filename} this will preserve the file's permissions, id's, etc. -Original Message- From: David Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:01 PM To: John F. Davis Cc: debian user mailing list Sub

segmentation fault

2000-05-30 Thread Smith, Martin
I installed XFree86 and when I execute startx I get: /usr/bin/X11/startx: line 74: 141 Segmentation faultxinit $clientargs -- $serverargs Also get "segmentation fault" when I try to run XF86Setup. Any ideas what the cause is?