Hello Admins!
I have a typical scenario here. We a Digital box 433au and other box both
running Digital Unix. We recently purchased a 8 Port card Digi PCI Xr
board, installed and configured it. Now the Dumb terminals are yet to
come. The task is how do I test the serial ports if they are working.
While I can see that the required special files are created and kernel
rebuilt , I aslo see the getty process running on them. Since It is more
or less assured it is OK. I have to doubly ensure I get a login prompt
when connected to them!!!
My questions are :
1. Suppose I have getty running on my serial port /dev/tty0, how do I
connect using my console or any xterm from my machine itself? It is
possible to get the login prompt without connecting any terminal to the
serial port? Do I need to have a loopback connector?
2. If I connect serial port of Machine A to machine B, how do I
connect or login to machine A using machine B?
While I understand that I need to enter in Systems, Devices file
(DIRECT tty00 ), I am not clear.
I will be thankful if anyone explains me more clearly!
Thanx in Advance.
Sridhar .M
CMC Ltd.
Received on Wed Aug 12 1998 - 17:09:06 NZST