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From: franco@pembina.cs.UAlberta.CA (Franco Carlacci)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: rs232 and getty
Message-ID: <1990Nov17.010425.13537@cs.UAlberta.CA>
Date: 17 Nov 90 01:04:25 GMT
Sender: franco@cs.UAlberta.CA (Franco Carlacci)
Organization: University of Alberta
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Well, I just got my copy of minix 1.5 for IBM PC for PH. I got it
going on my zeos 386 without  any problems. Well.... one problem. I can't
seem to get the getty to work. I can hang a terminal off my serial
port ( /dev/tty2) I can use kermit and term to call out, but, I can't
get getty to service that device. 
    I recompiled getty.c so that it would wait for DCD. ( That's one
of two options: there other is to simply ignore it. I'll say more
about that later). All this does is cause getty to sit in a an endless
loop, waiting for a DCD that never comes even though my modem tells me
that it is there. Using the other method leads to other unpleasantries.
I tried using a breakout box to make sure that DCD was being asserted.
That didn't change things.
   My question is:  what, if anything, am I doing wrong? This is my
first crack at being an administrator for a unix box, so I imagine
that I've left something out. Maybe my /etc/gettydefs file is set up
incorrectly. Anyone have one that I can look at? I'd really like to
get this going, so any help would be much appreciated. 


Thanks,

franco ( franco@cs.ualberta.ca)




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 Franco Carlacci               | " I always have to postpone what I WANT
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 franco@cs.ualberta.ca         |            Calvin and Hobbes