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toml_12953
January 25th, 2011, 08:10 PM
I've been trying to use a Teletype ASR-33 terminal to log into Ubuntu 10.10 with no luck. I have the following file, called ttyS0, in /etc/init/jobs.d and in /etc/init/event.d:

# ttyS0 - getty
#
# This service maintains a getty on ttyS0 from the point the system is
# started until it is shut down again.
start on stopped rc2
start on stopped rc3
start on stopped rc4
start on stopped rc5
stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6
respawn
exec /sbin/getty -L 110 ttyS0

Neither is seen when I start Ubuntu. When I run the ttyS0 file manually, I get a number of errors:

start: Unknown job: on
start: Unknown job: on
start: Unknown job: on
start: Unknown job: on
stop: Unknown job: on
stop: Unknown job: on
stop: Unknown job: on
./ttyS0: 15: respawn: not found

Is there a way to use a serial terminal in 10.10? If so, how??? :icon_frown: