On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David T. Lewis wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:34:57PM -0800, Michael Rueger wrote:
> > 
> > Ahem, just (re)learned something.
> > I kept looking at tty?, not ttyS? ...
> > 
> > And the permissions weren't set correctly on those.
> > But why were the getty's running on the tty's?
> > 
> > Confused but happy ;-)
> 
> Your Unix system is set up to support terminals or dial-in modems
> on the serial ports. 

I doubt that. The tty1 to tty6 you're typically seeing mingetty running on 
refer to the virtual consoles (Ctrl-Alt-F1 to F6), not serial ports.

-- Bert