[Gllug] Serial Terminal

[Ian Northeast]

Peter Childs wrote:
> 
>         How do I get Linux to treat its serial port as a terminal oldest
> trick in the book I know but for somreason I have serial terminals sitting
> around and I figure I can get them to work if I just add a line into
> /etc/inittab but what is the line. I think is somthing like
> 
> 7:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS0
> 
> but this don't work.

This works (on SuSE):

S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt100

No special configuration required.

Regards, Ian

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