Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-20 Thread andrew.macintyre
ot to worry, case closed. Many thanks for your helpful response. am - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: getty vs minicom Date: 07/19/99 18:34 According to Andrew MacIntyre: > >Source

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Andrew MacIntyre: > >Source of both agetty and mgetty is available on all debian mirrors. > > Could you tell me where then please. AFAICT, getty is packaged as > base/getty, however such a package appears not to exist, either > source or binary. mgetty I found w/o any probs. It's

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-19 Thread andrew.macintyre
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

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
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 between dialin/dialout) which has off

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread andrew.macintyre
PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: getty vs minicom Date: 07/16/99 19:38 In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andrew: > >I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When >getty is active, it is using the serial port, an

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-16 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andrew: > >I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When >getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should >be able to access it. Well, yes, that's probbaly what it doe

Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-15 Thread Marc Mongeon
Andrew: I believe that this is exactly how lock files are supposed to work. When getty is active, it is using the serial port, and no other application should be able to access it. Unless I misunderstand something... Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Syst