From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 21 3:25: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from icarus.slightlystrange.org (icarus.slightlystrange.org [62.190.193.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7391337B400 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 03:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danielby by icarus.slightlystrange.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17A6p8-0000Nx-00 for ; Tue, 21 May 2002 11:24:58 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 11:24:58 +0100 From: Daniel Bye To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Logging in over serial console Message-ID: <20020521102458.GA1467@icarus.slightlystrange.org> Reply-To: dan@slightlystrange.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020521000756.GB32542@icarus.slightlystrange.org> <20020521104647.A45802@ei.bzerk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020521104647.A45802@ei.bzerk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:46:47AM +0200, Stable User wrote: > > Did you edit /etc/ttys to start a getty on your serial console port? > > ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure > > Just change "off" to "on". Then do a kill -HUP 1. > > This is documented in the handbook. > Ah! Missed that. Thanks for the pointer. I'll give it a go... Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message