Bug 23965

Summary:	agetty is missing
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Dr. Tilmann Bubeck <tilmann>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Erik Troan <ewt>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Dr. Tilmann Bubeck 2001-01-13 22:33:45 UTC

You are not packaging agetty. mgetty is not always the right getty because
it cannot dial with serial consoles (a text terminal attached to a serial
line as the only screen).

See my bug report for mgetty for a description of the mgetty problem.

Please include agetty into util-linux.

Comment 1 Dr. Tilmann Bubeck 2001-01-13 22:43:47 UTC

Sorry, I made a typo. It should be:

You are not packaging agetty. mgetty is not always the right getty because
         it cannot *DEAL* with serial consoles (a text terminal attached to a
serial
         line as the only screen).

         See my bug report for mgetty for a description of the mgetty problem.

         Please include agetty into util-linux.

Comment 2 Erik Troan 2001-02-08 03:30:15 UTC

Doesn't mingetty work on serial consoles? We've used it here w/o any trouble for
years.

Comment 3 Dr. Tilmann Bubeck 2001-02-08 21:24:02 UTC

No, it did not work. The cause may be my termial (wyse 75) or a bug in mingetty,
but it did not work. Using either agetty or getty_ps was no problem. So I would
suggest including "agetty" into your util-linux rpm, because 
  a) it may be usefull
  b) it is part of util-linux.tar.gz

Greetings to RHAT-HQ!
   Till

Comment 4 Erik Troan 2001-02-08 23:14:47 UTC

I just added it for the next release.