Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> 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 know, but I was confused about the tty and ttyS. Back in the old days
wasn't tty the "real" thing and ttyp or ptty the pseudo? Well this is
getting OT, better stop.

> 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.

Oh boy, I think I need Linux for dummies. Or maybe just read the manual
;-)

Thank you all, learned a few things!!

Michael