Subject: Re: vt420 login problem
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/30/1999 14:17:17
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Patrick Welche wrote:
>Dave McGuire wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Patrick Welche wrote:
>> >:Check your parity settings. This is a common symptom of parity mismatch.
>> >
>> >How do I check that? I believe telnetd uses the default entry in
>>
>> On the terminal, not on the machine. F3 is the setup key...navigate over to
>> "comm", the parity/stop bits stuff is sorta in the middle of that group.
>
>As I said in the above message, both the terminal and the terminal server
>are set to no parity. (Not 100% but 99% sure everything is set to 1 stop bit)
>Does /usr/bin/login use /etc/gettytab's default or something else?
Ahh, I missed that. I just woke up a little while ago...that's my excuse. :)
I thought login wasn't supposed to change those modes...they were supposed to
get set by getty then left alone. Anyone else have more info?
-Dave McGuire