"L.V.Gandhi" wrote:
>
> What is the difference between vgetty and mgetty. In mar 99 issue of PCq
> regarding remote login, entry for inittab is given as
> VI:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -s 115200 ttyS0
> what for the 'VI' is given?
> can vgetty can be used for mgetty. Though I downloaded and installed
> vgetty there is no man or info. Can anybody explain the above?
>
The VI is just an identifier, you can put your initials LV also. mgetty
covers dial in shell/ppp connection, fax etc and for voice use vgetty.
Unfortunately very little documentation is available for vgetty.
-mukund
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