[BusyBox] invocation for "getty" on direct serial port?

[Ralph Siemsen]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   i'm connected from the laptop via minicom, 9600,8N1, but every
> incantation of "getty" i try on the embedded system just gives me the
> usage string.  i'm about to look at the source but if someone has a
> suggestion for the proper getty invocation, that would be appreciated.

The following works for me out of the inittab file...

ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100

It sounds like you are using devfs, that will make the device names 
different, not sure how that interacts with init...

-R