[NTLUG:Discuss] linux laptop as console to unix server

[Chris Cox]

fredjame wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
> 
>> Brian Kontrath wrote:
>> ...
>>
>>> What would you do to prepare the Unix server?  Do you have to set up 
>>> mgetty to listen to the serial port?
>>
>>
>>
>> Well.. I use agetty, SUSE uses the following line in their
>> inittab:
>>
>> S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS0 vt102
> 
> 
> Are you using this line with minicom?
> 

No, no... this is just to spawn a login on a serial port
of the server.  Then you would use minicom to attach to
the serial port of the server and login.