Re: help with seting up a dumb terminal to Linux please

[Trevor Astrope <astrope@tabbweb.com>]

Hi, I've done this on Slackware 3.0, but it should work fine under RH 5.0
as well.

Edit /etc/inittab with either of these lines:

s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT38400 vt100

or 

s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 38400 ttyS0 vt100

Save the /etc/inittab file and type 'init q' at the prompt.

One of those should get you a serial terminal on /dev/ttyS0 (or com1) on
the Linux box running at 38400 baud using vt100 terminal emulation. 

Trevor

You wrote:

> I would really appreciate detailed instructions on how to set up a DOS PC
> as a dumb terminal to Linux.  I have a DOS machine, with Telix, Vocal
> Eyes, and a serial cable.  I just installed Redhat 5, I tried editing the
> /etc/initab file but I am not still quite sure what to add.
> I had such a terminal set up, but I just installed Redhat 5, and I lost my
> configuration files.
> If someone could just tell me what to do so that Linux will allow logins
> from serial port1, so that I can access the Linux box from the DOS box, I
> would be greatful.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
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