"hooking up dumb terminals for dummies"

[Ben Pfaff]

Dam_Edged <DamedgedDon'tBother@home.com> writes:

> I tried hooking it up with the cable I mentioned earlier. 
> I added the following line to my /etc/inittab file:
> s1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttys01 DT38400 vt102
> I get an error message in the syslog
> Id "s1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> Is there a more "detailed" way to see what is going
> on?

Just run "/sbin/getty ttys01 DT38400 vt102" manually as root and
see what error messages are printed (I can see a few potential
problems without even trying).