Did you make the proper entries in /dev for the devices? You need those before you edit ttys, you also need to do an kill -1 1 to tell init to reread the ttys file.
Send me email privately at home if you want a little more help. IIRC you are also Eastern time ... I'm around today. Clem On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Will Senn <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Johnny. I found my notes on when I did this in V6. I had the > following in my ini file: > set dci en > set dci lines=8 > set dco 7b > att dci 5555 > > and when I boot V6 and telnet into it I get this: > telnet localhost 5555 > Trying ::1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > > > Connected to the PDP-11 simulator DCI device, line 0 > > > login: dmr > Login incorrect. > Name: root > # > > Which is great. I tried the same in V7 after editing /etc/ttys, which is > different in V7 than V6, having lines like: > 14console > 00tty00 > 00tty01 > > Which I changed to: > 14console > 10tty00 > 10tty01 > > After reboot, no go though. The telnet session is unresponsive. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Will > > On 10/14/17 2:14 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > >> I haven't played with V7, but I assume there must either be an /etc/ttys, >> or something similar, which tells Unix on which terminal lines to start a >> login process at boot. Otherwise they are going to be very silent. >> >> Also, remember to hit enter, as they will not spontaneously print out a >> prompt just because you telnet in. They have already printed a prompt when >> the login program started. >> >> Johnny >> >> On 2017-10-14 06:13, Will Senn wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> It's been a while since I used SimH pdp11 to do anything beyond boot >>> Unix V6/V7 for a single user. I would like to be able to use the V7 system >>> in multiuser mode with multiple users and I can't quite wrap my mind around >>> the problem, so I am asking y'all for help. I am sure I'm butchering the >>> discussion as I'm a bit unclear on what device is doing what, but >>> ultimately I want to be able to telnet locally to a port that the running >>> Unix Version 7 will respond to with a TTY that I can log in to. According >>> to the document Setting Up Unix - Seventh Edition by Charles B. Haley and >>> Dennis M. Ritchie, V7: >>> >>> The DC11 driver is set to run 4 lines. This can be changed in dc.c. >>> The DH11 driver is set to handle 3 DH11's with a full complement of 48 >>> lines. If you have less, or more, you may want to edit dh.c. >>> The DN11 driver will handle 4 DN's. Edit dn.c. >>> The DU11 driver can only handle a single DU. This cannot be easily >>> changed. >>> The KL/DL driver is set up to run a single DL11-A, -B, or -C (the >>> console) and no DL11-E's. To change this, edit kl.c to have NKL11 reflect >>> the total number of DL11-ABC's and NDL11 to reflect the number of DL11-E's. >>> So far as the driver is concerned, the difference between the devices is >>> their address. >>> >>> This sounds promising as these seem like terminals to me and each has >>> plenty of lines if only I could get simh to serve up the devices and attach >>> them to telnet ports, and if Unix will actually provide ttys on those >>> devices. >>> >>> I read the docs and tried adding variations of: >>> >>> set dli lines=4 >>> attach dli 3633 >>> set dlO0 nodataset >>> set dlO1 nodataset >>> >>> to my pdp11 boot.ini file, as well as dc versions of the above and and >>> and... >>> >>> I telneted to port 3633 locally after each reconfiguration, but didn't >>> get any unix output on the telnet session. >>> >>> I appreciate any helpful comments or suggestions. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Will >>> >>> >>> >> > -- > GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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