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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why can't I get a login on ttyd0? Date: 24 Jun 1997 06:35:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <5onpsa$14a@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5ojthg$c3h@news.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43422 Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk> wrote: > I am failing to get a 'login' prompt on a PC running 2.2.2 and I can't > figure out what I have missed. > > It has ttyd0 set 'on' in ttys, and gettytab is fine and getty is running > on the port (si0, com1,ttyd0 are all fine). Hmm. Any chance your terminal program on the other end doesn't fake DCD? Normal crossover cables wire DCD to the other end's DTR, thus raising DTR will fake a `carrier'. If your other end is Unix, this is normally done automatically, since in Unix, opening a tty port raises DTR. Many DOS terminal programs fail to do this automatically. Unless your incoming line is marked `local', it will be assumed to be a modem, thus waits for DCD. You can easily spot this in the `ps -alx' output, the WCHAN should be `siodcd' then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)