From: Juha Ursin (Juha.Ursin@hut.fi)
Date: 04/16/93


From: Juha.Ursin@hut.fi (Juha Ursin)
Subject: Serial communications (Re: Two questions)
Date: 16 Apr 1993 08:15:57 GMT

In article <1993Apr15.203634.13720@sfu.ca> tholbroo@malibu.sfu.ca (Todd Holbrook) writes:

>Second question: When trying to connect my XT to my linux box through
>a null modem, I've managed to get getty to send the issue file and the
>login prompt, but as soon as I type in a log in name, it hangs. Using
>ps, I can see that getty has called login, but I don't get the
>password prompt, and after 5 minutes it drops back to getty and the
>issue file and login prompt. The (hopefully) relevant line in my
>inittab is:

>c5:5:respawn getty 9600 ttyS1

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