[CentOS] syslog to serial term spits out garbage
John Plemons
john at mavin.com
Mon Aug 7 18:02:39 UTC 2006
You might try 19200 or 9600 for baud and none on parity and 1 stop bit,
that's pretty vanilla...
john
Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 19:34 +0200, SoNicX wrote:
>
>> hello,
>> i have wired myself a nullmodemcable to connect a small machine to my
>> centos-ltsp-and-so-on-server. using agetty i can login fine, just a few
>> garbage chars here and there but working is ok. now this isnt what i wanted,
>> so i disabled agetty, made a line in syslog.conf like
>> *.* /dev/ttyS0
>> and made the system produce a lockfile after syslog is started to lock that
>> serial port. now data reaches my minicom using terminal emulator, but its
>> garbage, looking like this:
>> ...x.x.x at ..x.x.
>> and so on. if i do
>> echo "somechar" > /dev/ttyS0
>> its the same garbage. im sure this is a quite simple thing, but i dont get it
>> to work. do i need another terminal prog if i try to send plaintext with
>> syslog (as it seems to me clueless as i am). do i need to manipulate syslog
>> output somehow? i tried to fiddle around with setserial but the port should
>> work, as they to with agetty. i hope someone on this list has experience with
>> this, doenst seem to be too popular.
>>
>
> You need to set the speed and parity to match at both ends on the
> serial port. Agetty probably cycled through some speeds to match up
> or had a config file. Stty will show/change the settings but I think
> they revert to defaults on the last close.
>
>
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