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by **Chris Hawl** » Mon, 29 Nov 1993 07:46:05

Hello,

I have two problems, the latter might be in the serial FAQ...

I can't seem to "stty 2400" a VT... Is this a bug or is it
deliberate? I'm trying to guage the speed of display over a 2400 baud
modem link on certain display files, etc. Is there a way I can slow a
VT down to 2400 baud?

And, I just tried to upload a file using Zmodem, and it just
dumps the whole file to the modem at max speed (19200), when I was not
connected at high speed. I don't think these are related, but just in
case... How do I set the flowcontrol on serial devices? I will read
the Serial FAQ tonight and look for "gettydefs" and "inittab", and see
what I find, but any help would be appreciated.

Chris

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by **Sunando S** » Tue, 30 Nov 1993 04:53:58

Quote:>Finally, the SLS 1.03 /etc/profile sets the TERM variable to console. Why is
>this? Shouldn't this be the job of something like /etc/gettytab (gettydefs?)?

I think this is a wrong procedure in SLS. I had no end of trouble because
of this. The correct way, I think, is the following: SLS uses shadow
password, which uses the file /etc/login.defs for setting up defaults for all
login sessions. You will find a line there which sets up the terminals. It
looks for a file called /etc/consoles, which should look like this:

console tty1
console tty2
............
console tty12
............
vt100 ttyS1
............

and so on. The whole thing is quite clearly explained in /etc/login.defs,
with plenty of comments.

Sunando Sen

by **Christian Schlichther** » Wed, 29 Dec 1993 22:52:00

Quote:>Finally, the SLS 1.03 /etc/profile sets the TERM variable to console. Why is
>this? Shouldn't this be the job of something like /etc/gettytab (gettydefs?)?

The correct way of doing this is to edit the file /etc/ttys (on BSD
systems) or /etc/ttytab (on SYSV systems). As Linux should one day
become a SVR4, the file should be named /etc/ttytab. You should also
edit the file /etc/login.defs to set this filename. Look at the
comments in /etc/login.defs to see how this is done.

I don't know the format of /etc/ttytab exactly, but it is either this

console tty1

or vice versa.

Greetings,
Chris.

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controlling console baud rate and...

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