Fedora 15 how to run mgetty -D ttyUSB0

[dave539]

This used to work in F14. I'm trying to get getty running on a USB serial device. Apparently some things are different in F15 and so what used to work no longer does.

So far, everywhere I've looked has information that points nowhere. Example, /etc/inittab says ttys are in a file called serial.conf. I don't have any such file. On the net there is apost to "systemd". It says something about creating a link in a directory system/system/getty.target/.... Well, on my system getty.target is a regular file, not a directory.

So my question is, how do I run in Fedora 15

/sbin/mgetty -D ttyUSB0

Please no pointers to incorrect documentation.

Thanks.

[DBelton]

try running the command to start a getty

su -
(root password)

systemctl start serial-getty@ttyUSB0.service

If that works, you can have it create it for you on every boot

ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants getty@ttyUSB0.service
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start getty@ttyUSB0.service

Edit:

Forgot to mention that you can also get the status of it after starting it as well:

systemctl status serial-getty@ttyUSB0.service

Should give you output similar to this:

serial-getty@ttyUSB0.service - Serial Getty on ttyUSB0
	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@.service)
	  Active: active (running) since Tue, 6 March 2012 09:05:55 -0600; 3min 24s ago
	Main PID: 1273 (agetty)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/serial-getty@.service/ttyUSB0
		  └ 1273 /sbin/agetty -s ttyUSB0 115200 38400 9600