[BusyBox] invocation for "getty" on direct serial port?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Ralph Siemsen wrote:

> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> >   i'm connected from the laptop via minicom, 9600,8N1, but every
> > incantation of "getty" i try on the embedded system just gives me the
> > usage string.  i'm about to look at the source but if someone has a
> > suggestion for the proper getty invocation, that would be appreciated.
>
> The following works for me out of the inittab file...
>
> ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100
>
> It sounds like you are using devfs, that will make the device names
> different, not sure how that interacts with init...

actually, it's an in-house DUART driver running a com port but, never
mind, just a stupid misreading of the docs for the command on my part.
sigh.  reading the source cleared things up.

rday