Hi, I'm trying to use a VT420 serial terminal on an i386 box running 4.1-stable. Not as a system console, just as an extra screen to login. The output of the boot loader and kernel output should go to the monitor, as usual.
The terminal is hooked up to the first serial port with a null modem cable. I changed the tty00 line of /etc/ttys to: tty00 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt220 on secure and sent -HUP to init. There's a getty process on tty00, but there's no login: prompt on the terminal. Everything I type on the terminal is echoed on the screen, so the cable is OK (local echo is off). The funny thing is, when I start 'tip tty00' on the machine (while logged in at the keyboard+monitor), the login: prompt appears on the terminal. When I quit tip, I can login at the terminal. When I logout from the terminal, the login: prompt doesn't appear (but everything I type is echoed to the terminal screen as before). I can start tip again, and then the login: prompt shows up again. I suspected a problem with the permissions of the tty00 device. After logout, they are set to crw------- 1 root wheel 8, 0 May 29 21:44 tty00 When logged in it is set to crw------- 1 maurice tty 8, 0 May 29 22:00 tty00 Not sure if this is what it should be, but it doesn't look strange to me. BTW: not sure if it is related, but when I login as normal user, the following warning is shown on the terminal: ksh: No controlling tty (open /dev/tty: Device busy) ksh: warning: won't have full job control When I login as root, I don't get this warning. Any ideas what's going wrong? Thanks, Maurice
