Steve Keller wrote: > For some retro feeling I grabbed my old modem and attached it to the > phone line. Minicom and dial-out work but now I'd like to allow > dial-in with a getty waiting on the line. > > Systemd has a serial-getty@ service which uses agetty but that doesn't > work. It seems agetty is just not suited for that job although the > manual page claims it to be. But I couldn't get agetty to wait for an > incoming call, answer it, and then send the login prompt. Instead, it > always immediately sends the prompt, execve()s to /bin/login which then > terminates after a 60s timeout. > > I've now installed mgetty but there is no systemd service file for it. > > Should I change the serial-getty@ service to use mgetty or should I > create a new service for it? In case of the latter, does it suffice > to only add the .service file or do I need anything else? >
agetty needs '-L never' to answer a modem; the modem may need an --init-string to be told to answer incoming calls. Have you done both of those? -dsr-
