I am trying to get a CentOS 6.3 serial console to work with IPMI SOL. I think I have everything working but maybe the wrong baud rate on the getty: $ ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -H 10.0.0.14 sol activate Password: [SOL Session operational. Use ~? for help] ���������� 10.0.0.14 is the DRAC IP address of the CentOS 6.3 box. It accepts the password and connects me to the console but then when I type I get those funny characters. Somehow an agetty is already being run: root 46110 1 0 16:13 ttyS1 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty /dev/ttyS1 19200 vt100-nav Is udev starting this up for me somehow? It says 19200 when everything I have read says it should be 115200. How do I change this? Some docs say I should create my own /etc/init/serial-ttyS1.conf containing: # For IPMI serial console # ttyS1 - agetty # # This service maintains a agetty on ttyS1. stop on runlevel [S016] start on runlevel [23] respawn exec agetty -h -L -w /dev/ttyS1 115200 vt102 but when I do that I end up with two gettys, presumably fighting over the serial port, and the original is apparently holding onto it because I still can't connect and get a login prompt. # ps -ef |grep agetty root 46110 1 0 16:13 ttyS1 00:00:00 /sbin/agetty /dev/ttyS1 19200 vt100-nav root 46118 1 0 16:13 ? 00:00:00 agetty -h -L -w /dev/ttyS1 115200 vt102 What is the right way to set this up? Thanks! -- Tracy Reed