From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 31 7:37: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ntua.gr (achilles.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D65037B503 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from edgar.netmode.ece.ntua.gr (edgar.netmode.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.13.70]) by ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17450; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:36:04 +0200 (EET) Received: (from past@localhost) by edgar.netmode.ece.ntua.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0VFU8k04754; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:30:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:30:08 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas To: Daniel Brady Cc: "'freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: Problem with Null Modem connection Message-ID: <20010131173007.B4692@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Reply-To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Brady , "'freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG'" References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from daniel.brady@trintech.com on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:53:11PM -0000 X-Organizational-Unit: Network Management and Optimal Design Laboratory X-Organization: National Technical University of Athens, GREECE X-Work-Phone: +30-1-772-1-450 X-Work-FAX: +30-1-772-1-452 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:53:11PM -0000, Daniel Brady wrote: > The other machine (winnt laptop) is set t0 9600 8-N-1 I had originally tried > with dialup in the /etc/ttys. I don't see the getty process running. I > thought this was odd but I assumed that the process was not spawned untill > data was detected on the relevant port Actually the getty process will detect the data on the serial port and act accordingly. Perhaps when you do 'kill -1 1' some error messages are logged in /var/log/{messages,console}? Is any other getty process running? Maybe there is some syntax error in /etc/ttys? I have never experienced such behavior so I am rather guessing at this moment. -past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message