Oh, ok. Now I'm with you. Sure, for this you don't want mgetty. Just use
the regular getty that's already on the system. Here's what you do.
First edit /etc/inittab to get init to run a getty on your chosen serial
port (I'll assume for purposes of exposition you want to use the first
serial port, /
This is easily done by running mgetty on the port. Note that booting your
computer
keyboard-less can be a problem. Many systems will hang in the BIOS POST if they
can't
sense the keyboard is present. On some systems this can be turned off in the
BIOS
setup. This has nothing to do with linux. I b
Hi:
I am trying to setup several linux systems that I
would like to administer over a network and/or via the
serial port. The serial port based admin. is important
in some cases when network is down etc. Is there any
way of running a Kermit like program to connect to a
linux box through COM ports
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