[hylafax-users] An entry in the inittabRe: Fw: cannot connect file has the following format:to the server

[Dave Forrest <drf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sat, 3 Feb 2007, root wrote:

> In   /etc/inittab  what does mean the t2  at the beginning of the ttyS0 line
> and where it goes to get the ttytype
>
>   # hylafax set-up
>   t2:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/faxgetty /dev/ttyS0


The t2 is just an identifer for the entry -- man inittab shows:

 An  entry  in  the  inittab file has the following format:

              id:runlevels:action:process

       Lines beginning with # are ignored.

       id     is a unique sequence of 1-4 characters which identifies an entry
              in inittab (for versions of sysvinit compiled with the old libc5
              (< 5.2.18) or a.out libraries the limit is 2 characters).

              Note:  traditionally,  for  getty and other login processes, the
              value of the id field is kept the same as the suffix of the cor-
              responding  tty,  e.g. 1 for tty1. Some ancient login accounting
              programs might expect this, though I can't think of any.



...... The serial port itself is setup with setserial.  How it is set up can be 
seen by running setserial -G /dev/ttyS0




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David Forrest                     e-mail   drf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Maple Park Development Corporation  http://www.maplepark.com
St. Louis, Missouri

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