So it turns out I was starting a script-based service in rc.local without sending it to the background with '&', so the last bit of the init process wasn't happening. Haven't been this stumped by something this stupid in a while... CD Chris DiTrani wrote: > I'm trying to get a headless Fedora 6 box working with a serial terminal > on com1. I've got grub set up so that kernel output goes to the > terminal, and I've added this line to my inittab: > > s0:345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt100 > > but agetty is not being run. > > If I run agetty with this same command line explicitly (from a prompt), > then the terminal gets a login prompt and I can login fine, so it seems > to just be a matter of getting init to run agetty. > > I've read several how-tos on this but no joy. I've also tried mgetty > with the same results. > > Any ideas? > > TIA. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
