Connecting An Ascii Terminal To The Iris Workstation - Silicon Graphics IRIS Workstation User Manual

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taste. For examples, see the files in /usr/guest. Copy these files into the
new home directory and edit them to suit the needs of the new user.
See csh(1) and sh(1).

6.8 Connecting an ASCII Terminal to the IRIS Workstation

ASCII terminals can be connected to the IRIS Workstation through
or
Port 3
Port 4
1.
Connect a serial line to
instructions on how to physically connect the IRIS Workstation to a
terminal with an RS-232 serial line.
2.
Edit the file /etc/inittab. Each line corresponds to a device file in /dev
and contains four fields separated by colons. See Table 6-2 for a list
of the correspondences between device files and physical ports on
the Cabinet I/O Panel. Find the line in /etc/inittab for the selected
port and delete the x in the second field. Figure 6-4 contains an
example /etc/inittab file. See inittab(4) for more information.
3.
init must be informed of the change to the /etc/inittab file.
This causes init to read /etc/inittab and start getty processes on each
sys:*:0:
system:*:0:
daemon:*:1:
bin:*:2:
adm:*:3:
sgi_use:*:4:
uucp:*:5:uucp
sgi_use:*:6:
sgi_use:*:1:
uucpadm:*:8:uucp
lp:*:9:
sgi_use:*:10:
sgi_use:*:11:
sgi_use:*:12:
sgi_use:*:13:
sgi_use:*:14:
sgi_use:*:15:
sgi_use:*:16:
sgi_use:*:11:
sgi_use:*:18:
sgi_use:*:19:
guest:*:998:
games:*:999:
user:*:20:
Figure 6-3: Sample /etc/group File
on the Cabinet I/O Panel (see Figure 3-4).
$ /etc/telinit -q
,
or
Port 2
Port 3
System Administration
. See Section 4.6 for
Port 4
Version 1.0
,
Port 2

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