archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com (Vincent Archer) (05/02/90)
charles spell <cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP> says: >Also, I am not quite sure on how to get getty to work on ports. There's >no inittab. I am assuming (uh oh) that gettys must be started with the >boot script or manually. Since Minix is modeled from Unix V7, there's no /etc/inittab arount. Rather, init reads the /etc/ttys file, and determines which ttys are used for login. Here's (from memory) the structure of each line in ttys: Character 0: '0' : do not use this tty for login '1' : start this tty with login (direct login) '2' : start this tty with getty (DCD & adaptable speed) Character 1: don't remember... Use 0, it should work Remainder : If a digit, tty is /dev/ttyx (where x is the digit) Otherwise, tty is /dev/xxxx (where xxxx is the remainder) If you started getty from /etc/rc, you could log-in only once after each boot! Not very useful :-) Vincent Reply to: archer%segin4.segin.fr@prime.com , not archer@segin4.segin.fr