Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: faulkner%jmullins@husc6.harvard.edu (Don Faulkner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Serial Line Settings Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 89 22:28:39 GMT References: <59@gaia.oz> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Harvard University Lines: 24 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 8 Mar 89 14:37:30 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 201, message 5 of 15 In article <59@gaia.oz> munnari!gaia.oz.au!drm@uunet.uu.net (David Moline) writes: Dave> Is it possible to alter the settings on the Sun's serial ports (ttya & Dave> ttyb) so that they default to 8 bits no parity rather than 7 bits even Dave> parity. WNL> How about setting that in /etc/gettytab? Can't you just create another WNL> getty type entry that uses the "p8" capability, then use that getty type WNL> on the line?...--wnl yup - you can set the flag, and getty will proceede accordingly. you type your login, "/bin/login" runs, and ... guess what ... looks to me like "/bin/login" sets back to 7/odd ... (Sun 4/260 SunOS 4.0.1) Don Faulkner Building 1, Room 803 Harvard University, School of Public Health 665 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 ARPA: faulkner%jmullins@harvard.harvard.edu BITNET: faulkner@harvard Telephone: (617) 732-2167 [[ Stupid software! Let me guess: "fixed in 4.1". --wnl ]]