serial console stops just before login prompt

[Doug White]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> On 2004.07.13 07:36:12 -0700, Kim Culhan wrote:
>
> > Setup serial console as follows:
> [...]
> > At this point there is no login: prompt on the terminal.
>
> You need to change /etc/tty's to start a getty on the serial console.
> E.g. for the first serial port change
>
> 	ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   dialup  off secure
> to
> 	ttyd0   "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" dialup  on secure

you get much better behavior if you set the terminal type to something
like vt100 :)  'dialup' is a magic terminal type thats supposed to kick
the user into providing a terminal type.  For a hardwired terminal, that
may do the wrong thing.

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