On the bo (1.3.1) system I tried this on, I got:
vesta# dpkg -S /sbin/getty
getty: /sbin/getty
Which as I said, lead me up a blind ally.
>From your response, I have just tried:
vesta# dpkg -s getty
Package: getty
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Insta
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>According to Andrew MacIntyre:
>> As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an
>> ancient Slackware box, I expected this to work on this much more
>> recent Debian box .
>
>That is because that worked with the cua/ttyS devices (kernel based
>locking
As I was used to agetty and minicom cooperating nicely on an ancient Slackware
box, I expected this to work on this much more recent Debian box .
I use mgetty at home, but didn't really want to have to deal with its
complexities for the situation at hand.
The situation's more or less under cont
I have a debian 1.3.1 system on which I have a modem for
periodic remote access. Dial-in has worked nicely for some
time. However I needed to check/reset the modem
configuration, so I fired up minicom (cu isn't my cup of tea,
and I've previously used minicom to do this, but not on this
syst
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