From: ucc02aa@sun3.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Pilch) Subject: bugs Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 10:49:52 GMT
I have almost become a Linux freak by now. Of course it would still be
better, if one could do everything without becoming a freak. In order
to make my PC accessible by modem from outside, I had to maneuver
around several near-collapses of the harddisk and experiment until
I finally found the solution, which is somewhat different from the
hazardous proposals in FAQ.
The relevant passage of my file /etc/inittab now looks like this:
c1:123456:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty1
c2:23456:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty2
c3:3456:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty3
c4:456:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 tty4
c5:6:respawn:/bin/getty 9600 ttyS1
c6:6:respawn:/bin/getty 38400 ttyS0
This, however, only allows access for 9600 baud modems and a 38400 baud
nullmodem. Anyone with a 2400 baud-only modem will be excluded as will
be 14400 baud modem users, whom I could otherwise connect with. This
is because the getty command does not accept any comma-separated lists
of baudrates nor does it recognize the option -m. Any attempt to
change the terminal name c5, c6 to something like vt100 or ttysx
will inevitably lead to a near-catastrophe, which only a freak knows
how to handle. The screen is inremittantly clobbered with error-messages,
as soon as the file is saved or as soon as the init procedure is activated
during booting.
Am I having all this trouble only because my Linux version isn't the newest?
Thanks for any hints.
Hartmut Pilch
archive-administrator of ftp.lrz-muenchen.de:/sw/pub/culture/ostasien