On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 11:14:56AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 01:40:32AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > > > The inittab setup is not different. However, the only way to switch > > > > That's not true, it is -- getty requires a speed, even for a virtual > > terminate, while mingetty doesn't support that. > > Does this mean that mingetty won't ignore this argument? That > should be fixed, in my opinion.
Unfortunately, no it doesn't ignore the speed, I just tried it. Apr 26 11:03:13 silly /sbin/mingetty[13276]: /dev/38400: No such file or directory However this could easily be fixed. > This is not a completely reasonable comparison (though it does show > 0:00 time used by each getty, which is perhaps significant). I've tried to start them at the same time here: /etc$ ps -aux | grep getty root 13240 0.1 0.9 804 284 6 S 10:59 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 root 13241 0.0 0.9 812 296 7 S 10:59 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400 t root 13245 0.0 0.9 908 308 4 S 11:00 0:00 grep getty root 28139 0.0 0.8 804 272 5 S Apr 24 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5 root 28176 0.0 1.3 872 420 ? S Apr 24 0:00 /sbin/mgetty ttyS2 > Finally, note that if we get too fancy it will be tough for people who > need to use multiple gettys on the same system (but maybe that's only > important for testing purposes). Is agetty used much for serial? I always use mgetty here, although usually because I want something more exotic like AutoPPP or fax reception. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]