I now have mgetty set up and working just fine, with one problem: I don't know how to use it as a shell.
I know it works because I set up wvdial on our Red Hat box with my username and password and it dialed up and connected just fine. However, it tries to start ppp (which isn't really what I need, I don't think) and then after a bit the pppd dies because (of course) no connection is made. So basically, I can connect (thus I know mgetty is working) but I can't figure out how to get a shell out of
Hi, On 1/8/01 at 3:54 PM wilson@claborn.net wrote: <snip> the deal.
Can anyone explain how to get a shell prompt? Am I even supposed to be using wvdial or should I be using some
shell script?
If a shell script could I see an example?
What are you using for a terminal app? I think it would be easier to use minicom to check the connection rather than wvdial. It can dial up and should present you with the login prompt without trying to start ppp and maybe you can see where it gets stuck. If you need a secure connection, perhaps you should set up ppp and run something like OpenSSH on top (IIRC you need ppp to provide the tcp/ip layer for ssh). HTH, Tim