Palm Pilot as Terminal

[Franklin H. Chasen]

I still have not been able to get my Palm Pilot V to login to my Linux
box.  I think the problem is with the login program.

I took Mike Billow's advice and e-mailed the vendor for the Online program
that I am using.  They claimed that their program does handle the serial
handshake lines correctly.  They suggested various EOL and other changes
which I tried but the changes did not make any difference.  They also
suggested I drop the speed to 9600 which I did.

I also increased the debug level of mgetty to try and get more clues as to
what is happening.  I will put the actual output at the end so
disinterested readers don't have to page through it.

My interpretation from looking at the debug messages is that mgetty is
able to see my initial carriage return and issue the login prompt.  It
sees my username entry and calls login:

06/06 06:09:36 yS0   calling login: cmd='/bin/login', argv[]='login frank'

Login then starts running with the same pid that mgetty had.  However it
just sits there for 60 seconds without sending the password prompt and
exits.  mgetty then restarts with a new pid.

Since my actual intended uses for the Palm terminal are logging in to Unix
boxes through a modem or connecting to the command port of MUXs (which
have no login), this problem with logging in on a direct connection to a
serial port may not be a fatal problem.  However if anyone has a clue as
to what the problem is I would still like to hear it.

Here, for the hearty souls, is the mgetty debug output:

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06/06 05:59:18 yS0  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.21-Jul24
06/06 05:59:18 yS0  check for lockfiles
06/06 05:59:18 yS0   checklock: no active process has lock, will remove
06/06 05:59:18 yS0  locking the line
06/06 05:59:18 yS0   makelock(ttyS0) called
06/06 05:59:18 yS0   do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0'
06/06 05:59:18 yS0   lock made
06/06 05:59:18 yS0   tio_get_rs232_lines: status: RTS CTS DSR DTR RI
06/06 05:59:18 yS0  lowering DTR to reset Modem
06/06 05:59:19 yS0   tss: set speed to 9600 (015)
06/06 05:59:19 yS0   tio_set_flow_control( HARD )
06/06 05:59:19 yS0   waiting for line to clear (VTIME), read:
06/06 05:59:19 yS0   waiting for line to clear (VTIME), read:
06/06 05:59:19 yS0   removing lock file
06/06 05:59:19 yS0  waiting...
06/06 06:09:22 yS0    select returned 1
06/06 06:09:22 yS0   checking lockfiles, locking the line
06/06 06:09:22 yS0   makelock(ttyS0) called
06/06 06:09:22 yS0   do_makelock: lock='/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0'
06/06 06:09:22 yS0   lock made
06/06 06:09:22 yS0   waiting for line to clear (VTIME), read: [0d][0a]
06/06 06:09:23 yS0    looking for utmp entry... (my PID: 25781)
06/06 06:09:23 yS0   utmp + wtmp entry made
06/06 06:09:23 yS0   tio_set_flow_control( HARD )
06/06 06:09:23 yS0   print welcome banner (/etc/issue)
06/06 06:09:23 yS0   getlogname (AUTO_PPP), read:frank[0d]
06/06 06:09:35 yS0   input finished with '\r', setting ICRNL ONLCR
06/06 06:09:35 yS0   tio_get_rs232_lines: status: RTS CTS DSR DTR RI
06/06 06:09:35 yS0  WARNING: starting login while DCD is low!
06/06 06:09:35 yS0    login: use login config file
/etc/mgetty+sendfax/login.config
06/06 06:09:36 yS0   match: user='frank', key=''
06/06 06:09:36 yS0   match: user='frank', key=''
06/06 06:09:36 yS0   match: user='frank', key=''
06/06 06:09:36 yS0   match: user='frank', key='*'*** hit!
06/06 06:09:36 yS0   calling login: cmd='/bin/login', argv[]='login frank'
06/06 06:09:36 ##### data dev=ttyS0, pid=25781, caller='none',
conn='DIRECT', name='', cmd='/bin/login', user='frank'

06/06 06:09:36 yS0   setenv: 'CALLER_ID=none'
06/06 06:09:36 yS0   setenv: 'CALLED_ID='
06/06 06:09:36 yS0   setenv: 'CONNECT=DIRECT'
--
06/06 06:10:36 yS0  mgetty: experimental test release 1.1.21-Jul24


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