Herb Peyerl wrote:
> So much disinformation, so little time.

I think the correct term would be "irrelevant information", not 
"disinformation". ;-)

	Johnny
> 
> 
> On 18-Jul-06, at 3:33 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> I don't know how to activat changes without reboot, but after a 
>>> reboot you'll
>>> have serial console.
>>
>> As Jukka Salmi pointed out. This is not a console line, but simply a 
>> normal serial login terminal line. And a SIGHUP to the init process 
>> will force it to re-read the ttys file.
> 
> except for the last attribute (local, crtsdts, mdmbuf) which requires 
> ttyflags to be run.
> 
>>> For a Kernel that outputs to serial console, you'll need
>>> to recompile the kernel an set following params:
>>
>> That is what a serial console is. The console is where the system 
>> outputs system information. Serial or otherwise.
>> A login process is totally unrelated to the console.
> 
> You don't need to recompile the kernel.  That is one (sub-optimal) way 
> to do it.  The kernel gets its notion of console from the bootblocks.   
> So you should run installboot and point it at the serial port of your 
> dreams.  The kernel will follow.
> 
> Sounds like we need a FAQ for this.  Maybe I should do one.
>