mgetty

[James Kaufman]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 06:45:54PM +0000, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> Here is where I am at after following the instructions on the link provided 
> earlier:
> 
> I dialup and I get to logging on to network then the mgetty just dies and 
> kicks me out of my ssh session.
> 
> as you can see
>  
> 
> [root at chadlap chadley]# ssh preload
> root at preload's password:
> Last login: Thu Feb 10 18:28:03 2005 from chadlap
> [root at preload root]# /sbin/mgetty ttyS0 -D ttyS0 -s 115200
> Connection to preload closed.
> [root at chadlap chadley]#                         
> 
> How can I find out why it is dying on me and kicking me out of the ssh 
> session?
> 
> I presume it has to do with the authentication but I can't seem to get it to 
> authenticate.
> 
> I have allowed ppp0 on my firewall and I have also set a passwd for a user 
> copied from the example also ppp
> 
> please could some-one more knowledgeable help out here!
> 
> 
> --
> Chadley Wilson
> Redhat Certified Technician
> Cert Number: 603004708291270
> Pinnacle Micro

Start by using '-x 6' in the mgetty startup command. This will give you a lot
of debug info, probably in /var/log/messages. But perhaps in
/var/log/mgetty.log.ttyS1.

-- 
Jim Kaufman
Linux Evangelist
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