This was written in 2012. The instructions for getting a TTY login session on the terminal device are now out of date. /etc/inittab is a thing of the past, an

This was written in 2012. The instructions for getting a TTY login session on the terminal device are now out of date. /etc/inittab is a thing of the past, and telinit q is no longer the tool. In systemd operating systems, one would instantiate a serial-getty@ttyUSB0.service , tweaked to set the TERM environment variable appropriately. On systems with nosh service management, one creates and uses an agetty@ttyUSB0 or mgetty@ttyUSB0 service bundle, adjusted with "rcctl set" to set the TERM environment variable appropriately. (What one does on runit/s6 systems is, of course, similar.) * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/inittab-getty-is-history.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/inittab-getty-is-history.html * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/inittab-is-history.html http://jdebp.uk./FGA/inittab-is-history.html * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/248313/5132 https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/248313/5132 * http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/real-terminal-login.html http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/real-terminal-login.ht...