On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:48:49PM -0000, Charles wrote:
>
>
> --- In Russ Nelson <> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 09:22 -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
> >
> > > I've done this painlessly on debian systems in the past, i.e., it just
> > > worked out of the box, perhaps due to the use of mgetty, so never really
> > > got into the details of what was actually going on. I think that may have
> > > been thanks to mgetty knowing when to step aside, and/or perhaps having
> > > both processes honor the same locks.
> >
> > Exactly. You should give a try at compiling it, because it is designed
> > to solve the problem you're having.
> >
>
> Also be aware that busybox has seen light-years of development since the
> version you are using. I've seen several odd failures, simple things that
> work on other systems, that turn out to be a bug or corner case in busybox
> (usually fixed long ago).
>
> So don't hesitate to try an updated bb, or compile your own tool to use
> instead of bb, if you see something strange while testing mgetty. And Russ
> is right, mgetty is made for this.
>
> regards, ....... Charlie
Thanks, Russ and Charlie. I'll look into doing all those things,
compiling mgetty, updating busybox, and maybe customizing the system
further.
Ken
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