Anders Dinsen wrote:
> 
> I have enabled tty00 and tty01 for login in /etc/ttys,

How exactly did you do this?

> but getty seems
> to hang. ps -lx reports:
> 
>   UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT TT       TIME
> COMMAND
>     0   229     1   2   3  0    28  164 ttyopn IW   ??    0:00.08
> /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 tty00
>     0   230     1   0   3  0    28  164 ttyopn S    ??    0:00.08
> /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 tty01

This actually seems OK to me: eg. I get

    0  1168     1   0   3  0    72  508 ttyopn S    ??    0:00.04
/usr/libexec/uugetty std.9600 tty00 

with

tty00   "/usr/libexec/uugetty std.9600" vt220 on rtscts

in /etc/ttys. Then when I connect on the other end of the wire, in
this case DOS/kermit:

    0  1168     1   0   3  0    76  512 ttyin  Ss+  00    0:00.06
/usr/libexec/uugetty std.9600 tty00 

So I guess one question is - how is your cable wired? In my case, both
9-pin, I have:

2-3
3-2
4-6
5-5
6-4
7-8
8-7

with 1 and 6 tied together within each plug.

On a related note, my thanks to Frederick Bruckman for the scenario
whereby a modem gives getty a user name of RING. I have yet to make a
new cable!

Cheers,

 Patrick