From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 09:58:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5420716A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:58:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from galaxy.systems.pipex.net (galaxy.systems.pipex.net [62.241.162.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E4143D41 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:58:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com) Received: from [10.0.0.247] (81-178-122-12.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.122.12]) by galaxy.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A19E00022E for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:58:50 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <417E1FDE.3050407@dsl.pipex.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:58:54 +0100 From: Mark Cullen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Serial console weirdness X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:58:53 -0000 Ok, I am having a bit of trouble setting up a serial console login. The cable is attached to com1, heres my /etc/ttys # If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root password # when going to single-user mode. console none unknown off secure # ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv4 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv5 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv6 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv7 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" dialup on secure ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure ttyd2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure ttyd3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure # Dumb console dcons "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure As you can see I have set ttyd0 to on (and adjusted the speed, but it was the same on 9600 to0) Now, my problem is that when I do a kill -HUP 1 nothing happens; Well, I am sure something happens, it certainly doesn't start getty on that serial port though! However(!) when I start getty manually on that port: /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 ttyd0 It promptly goes into the background and on my other machine I get the login prompt and all is well (until I logout as getty isn't being respawned). I didn't see anything logged as to why it's not working. I will mention that I yanked the (very very broken) graphics card out of that machine, so there's no ttyv's. Do I need to make the serial console my ... console/display for getty to start working again perhaps? Any help would be much appreciated. -- Internet Explorer? Try FireFox at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Outlook Express? Try ThunderBird at http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/