On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Daniel David Benson wrote: >This is off topic a bit in regards to kickstart -- but related for some >of us. I noticed the following HOWTO: > >http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/getty-mingetty.html > >Mentions not to use mingetty for serial line access. I fired it up >and seems to work fine. Why is it bad to use mingetty for serial >access? Because it can't do all the things serial lines use, e.g. handle different line speeds, flow control, hangup behaviour, carrier detect... Cheers, Phil
