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From: arubin@spies.UUCP (Andy Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Need help connecting a UNIX PC I/O Expansion port to Datakit
Summary: Did you re-spawn getty??
Keywords: UNIX-PC Datakit ISN RS232 Expansion
Message-ID: <166@spies.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 20:56:55 GMT
References: <2481@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
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In article <2481@ihlpe.ATT.COM>, res@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Rich Strebendt @ AT&T-C/IS (IW); formerly) writes:
> The terminal emulator fires up just fine, indicating that it is able to
> open the port, but I get no response from Datakit when I beat on the
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?  If the
> 
> 				Rich Strebendt
> 				...!ihnp4![iwsl6|ihlpe|ihaxa]!res

If I understand the question correctly...

Rich, have you tried to kill the getty running on that port?  You mentioned
that you edited /etc/inittab ( which you're not supposed to do, but I
won't tell - it's "PROGRAM MODIFIED" Urp.)  Each time the 7300 re-boots,
it executes the /etc/profile, which inititalizes the /etc/inittab to the
chosen values at install time.  If they're wrong, and you just edit
the inittab, then getty will still be running.  You can issue the
/etc/getty tty001 <baud> command yourself, for testing purposes.  Be
sure to include the & after the commandline, so you still have use of
the console.

Hope this helped.

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