Re: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7 -- Serial Console Installation

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@suse.com)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 14:23:45 PST

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    From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com>
    Message-ID: <20001203142345.H32265@gimp.org>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7 -- Serial Console Installation
    

    * Richard E. Robbins <rerobbins@home.com> [001203 13:47]:
    > It appears that the system is still trying to establish a set of virtual
    > consoles since I get messages from init about ID's one through six
    > respawning too fast. Presumably I should just comment out those lines in
    > /etc/inittab. I'd would have hoped that this would have happened
    > automatically by virtue of doing a serial console install. Oh well.

    Yep... editing the /etc/inittab and using the telinit program to
    modify this. On the plus side, if you ever plug in a moditor, you
    won't have to worry about there not being a terminal there.

    > What do I need to do to allow root logins from something other than the
    > console?

    Add it to "ttyS0" /etc/securetty.

    > Also, what do I need to do to allow xdm or kdm to manage window sessions
    > established over a network connection?

    I believe there's a HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org on this.

    > YaST and YaST2 or not very useful when running a session hooked up to my
    > VT420 (which is in VT100 mode). The display quickly gets too garbled to be
    > helpful.

    It'll be fine over ssh... if that's an acceptable work-around.



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