From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 10: 7:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CE0437B418 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:07:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from adsl-63-206-234-188.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO setibox) (63.206.234.188) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2001 18:07:43 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <001901c167b6$7ad51be0$0c01a8c0@setibox> Reply-To: "Eric" From: "Eric" To: References: <005701c1661a$7da8ec90$0c01a8c0@setibox> <75940000.1005004977@localhost> <20011105205116.G745@blossom.cjclark.org> Subject: Re: trouble with serial terminals Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:03:12 -0800 Organization: TekShop X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok, the first spits back this: root 255 0.0 0.6 940 580 ?? I Fri06PM 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/gettystd.9600 ttyd0 root 256 0.0 0.6 940 580 ?? I Fri06PM 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/gettystd.9600 ttyd1 and the second: root getty 256 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r root getty 256 wd / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r root getty 256 text /usr 1277710 -r-xr-xr-x 21256 r root getty 255 root / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r root getty 255 wd / 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r root getty 255 text /usr 1277710 -r-xr-xr-x 21256 r I'm going to try Ted's suggestion about the cable. Maybe it's a wiring thing. Thanks Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Crist J. Clark" To: "Damien Tougas" Cc: "Eric" ; Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:51 PM Subject: Re: trouble with serial terminals > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 07:02:57PM -0500, Damien Tougas wrote: > > --On Monday, November 05, 2001 08:54:10 -0800 Eric > > wrote: > > > > > These are my lines in /etc/ttys: > > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > > > ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > > > > Try this instead: > > > > cuaa0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > > cuaa1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure > > > > I had similar problems, but using this seemed to work for me. > > No, ttyd* is correct. I've used serial consoles with FreeBSD machines > for a long time, and it can be frustrating. (I've found getting serial > consoles going on lots of different types of machine frustrating too.) > > Not sure what might be wrong here. How about, > > $ ps auxww | fgrep tty > $ fstat | fgrep getty > > Info to make sure that is all OK? > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > | cjclark@jhu.edu > http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message