From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 03:23:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA01684 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:23:06 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA01660 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 03:22:57 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA03759 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 12:22:18 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA10320 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 12:22:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA06543 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 07:39:39 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508310539.HAA06543@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 07:39:38 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508310204.IAA11272@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Aug 31, 95 08:04:49 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 601 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > Logging on cuaXX may be useful when connecting a local terminal by a cable > with broken null-modem connection (many of them contain no wire from DTR > to DCD). This is not the intented way. The intented way is using ttyd0 and setting it to CLOCAL (i.e., no modem control, thus no carrier detect). Since our getty is very old, you cannot define this in gettydefs, but you can use the lock-style devices and /etc/rc.serial. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)