Hi Thierry, On 7/5/2012 7:47 AM, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
Replying to myself: On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 12:56:26PM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:Putting on, say /dev/tty00, in /etc/ttys does not work, whether with "Pc", "std.9600" or a custom entry in gettytab.Correction this was "/dev/tty01" since I had already the console as com0. But resetting the console as "pc" at boot time, putting "on" the /dev/tty00 line in /etc/ttys does work. Is there a restriction so that it is not possible to have the console on a serial line and _another_ login on a serial port? (This was not my initial question; one is enough for my case, the console being on /dev/ttyE0).
You can put logins on all the serial ports, if you choose. (there are some consequences if you also want to be able to dial *out* on a serial port, e.g., through a modem) The same applies to the ttyE* devices (depending on how many are supported in your kernel, configured, etc.) E.g., I use different terminal types defined for each ttyE* that do nothing more than change the *color* of the text that is displayed. (I find this makes it easy for me to remember which login session I might be using for a particular purpose -- e.g., "I am editting the disklabel on the RED screen and running fdisk on the BLUE screen" -- so it is easier for me to flip back and forth between them) You can only have *one* "console" defined, though.