From: A. Bryan Curnutt (bryan@uhura1.uucp)
Date: 06/01/93


From: bryan@uhura1.uucp (A. Bryan Curnutt)
Subject: Re: Modem problems (inittab/getty/uugetty) ...
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1993 11:16:21 GMT

In article <C7uovI.LCs@uhura1.uucp> bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net writes:
>In article <WESCOTT.93May29043933@pleiades.cs.bucknell.edu> wescott@pleiades.cs.bucknell.edu writes:
>>
>>c6:6:respawn:/bin/uugetty 19200,14400,9600,4800,2400,1200,300 ttys1
>
>Since you appear to be using the sysvinit supplied with SLS, this
>appears to be just plain wrong.

... unless, of course, you replaced the getty_ps that comes with SLS
with poeigl getty. Thanks to Brian Edmonds for pointing this out in
e-mail.

> Your inittab line needs to look more like
>
>c6:6:respawn:/etc/uugetty 19200 ttys1

... or, if you want it to actually work,

c6:6:respawn:/etc/uugetty ttys1 19200

if you're using getty_ps. Thanks again to Brian Edmonds.

-- 
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